I'm not an infatuated person, but I've been talking about "love" with glasses since my third year in senior high school, but it's been more than a dozen years since I was in junior high school. From the first "academic" style in Phnom Penh to the later "brother" model in the black frame, I was under the command of the later "Toad" style, as well as the "leopard grain" style, which is on the cutting edge of the trend. Exchanges with optometrists have changed from a clean northeast mandarin to today's Australian accent, London. Pinching the number of optometrists and optometrics assistants who have dealt with it is no less than 10. So Nieh-jung, I'm going to tell you how to match glasses in my village of Tai'ao.
First of all, you'd better hold a private insurance card because if you buy private insurance and additional insurance, you usually include optometry. Of course, if you are a permanent home or a citizen of Australia, optometry this goverment bill, as long as you throw out of the Medicare, lens shop will give you a professional to measure how far or how close you can see! I usually need to make an appointment, if I'm lucky enough to do it on the spot (I caught it once, when I was nervous and I looked in the mirror to sort myself out, and then I felt purely affectionate). If you are an international student, the insurance (OSHC) you buy does not normally include additional risks, that is, optometry and optometry are not free (you need to take a closer look at their terms). But some universities offer free optometry and eye tests. The University of Melbourne, for example, has this service. Optometrist, an optometrist in Australia, is one of the top people who can graduate from college for more than five years. Their annual salary is no lower than that of a family general practitioner. It is a highly respected profession.
When the optometry begins, the optometrist will ask a lot of detailed questions, such as when do you need glasses, how long you wear them every day, whether you have contact lenses, whether you have any injuries to your eyes, whether the family has heredity, and so on. It may seem verbose, but these issues are important for the glasses you're about to have. Then there are a variety of optical instruments on the array, in the middle of the manual exchange for different degrees of professional courses to remove lenses to carry out fine degree correction, has reached precision. Some large optometrics are equipped with professional "posterior eyeball imaging" instruments to help photograph some minor lesions at the back of the eyeball, and have achieved the goal of early detection and early treatment, which is human-oriented and accountable to people.
After the degree is finalized, the optometrist will ask you what special requirements you have for glasses, some people like resin, some people like ultra-light, some people like non-reflective, and so on. At this time, the frame you choose is also learned, this later said. The optometrist will then type your specific degrees into the computer, tell you what your left and right eyes are, and print out a copy for you as a memento. The optometry phase is over, and he will hand you over to the optometrics assistant for the rest of the work.
Speaking of choice frames, I have to mention some of the well-known eyeglass shops in the Greater Melbourne region. Specsavers, OPSM,Bupa is the three most famous. For example, some of the ophthalmoscope shops opened by other Chinese people are also good, but not many of them. And concentrated in the Chinese settlement, the object of service is relatively single. In terms of high-end optical shops, these big optical shops include OPSM, which mainly sells large-name glasses, such as Dior, RayBan, Gucci, and Prada. It is the most comprehensive. The price is also not cheap, but its quality does not say, basically is not "Made In Jingdezhen", so it is also worth spending a lot of money to buy a real product. Specsavers is relatively cheap, its brand is not so bold, pro-people-oriented. There are often $199AUD for 2 pairs/No gap activities, so that you can completely use the glasses in your private insurance, without any additional payment, Bupa is similar, just more favorable to Bupa members.
When the frame is finished, the assistant will carefully write down the model, and all the special requirements, and carefully check. Here comes the most important show-pay! The assistant will take your Medicare and your private insurance card and go to the cashier! Go back and forth several times, especially if your private health card stays on the machine for a few minutes and you get a long receipt telling you when to pick it up, and there will be text messages or Email notifications. The service is very sweet, isn't it?
Your glasses will arrive at your glasses shop in about 10 working days, and the staff will inform you in time that your express delivery has arrived! Then before you take it, you will be asked to try it on, and you will be asked carefully how you feel, dizzy or dizzy, or not clear, if it is loose, ah, Blah Blah.. When you are satisfied with everything, your beloved glasses are completely yours. At this point, all you have to look forward to is when you're going to do what you're doing next year. Because your private insurance is bought every year, unless you Cancel dropped the additional insurance, otherwise you will have more than 100 dollars a year in advance glasses can be squandered oh (depending on the level of insurance you buy, this amount is not the same.) ~
In addition, the general medical examination of the eye is almost the same as the optometry, all in the optometry shop, if there is a Medicare card, it is free.
What? Some people think the glasses shop has too few styles? No problem, as long as you are willing to wriggle, after optometry, go to clearly.com.au, to pick your own glasses frame. This is said to be Australia's largest, with thousands of frames available and cheaper.
All right, that's it. I'm going to pack the glasses that I just cleaned. Brushing 15 pairs of glasses is also quite competitive!