Dr Christian French - Consulting Optometrist

For a start you will not be a customer and you will not be seen for a sight test in my shop. You are a patient, coming for an eye exam at my practice. The difference in terminology may seem trivial but this is an important shift in mindset for us. You are not coming to see me principally to buy glasses or contact lenses; you are coming to have the health and functioning of your eyes checked; just as you would see a dentist regularly.
The tests that I do on your eyes use clinically robust instruments and my findings are documented so that I can monitor the long-term changes in your eye health. It is possible to detect things on your first exam with a new optometrist, but there are a significant number of conditions which are detected gradually, over time. Whomever you see as your optometrist, whether it be me or someone else, consistency is key and it is important to see the same person each time whenever possible.
I also don’t sell spectacles at the practice. This may seem odd, but it is actually a model people in North America and Europe will be very familiar with. An optometrist or ophthalmologist performs the eye exam and provides you with a prescription. You can then take this prescription to an optician who sells spectacles. To ensure the advice I give you is 100% in your best clinical interests, I don’t have any products to sell.