What's New:
FOR YOUR PATIENTS AND PRACTICE

Choose your interface

K Crowell Systems announced that it will release Medformix software equipment in early 2006. The new version features Multiple User Interface (MUI), which allows the user to choose from three types of interfaces. The choices are:

A Windows or Graphic User Interface

A Web browser (enables use on a wider range of computers, including Macintosh), or   

A Character-based interface (for use with keyboard).

MUI enables the user to switch back and forth between the interfaces he or she wishes to employ, limited only by the workstation's capabilities. All three interfaces will work simultaneously.

Crowell Systems
Phone: (800) 366-4564
Web: crowellsystems.com
 

Furniture for an office facelift

K Eye Designs presents the Expressions furniture collection. Expressions' freestanding wood displays feature elegant curves and stylish details for a timeless look, the company says.

Eye Designs LLC
Phone: (800) 346-8890
Web: eyedesigns.com
 

K AIT recently introduced Top Clean, an instrument designed by and for opticians to perform the final finishing work in rimless spectacle assemblies. Manufactured by DB Optic of France, the small tool features internal mechanics of rigid stainless steel with an anodised aluminum exterior for durability, and comes in its own case. AIT says it achieves professional quality work within seconds and eliminates handling risks.

AIT Industries
Phone: (800) 729-1959
Web: aitindustries.com

K CooperVision added the UltraVue PC Multifocal Toric contact lens to its collection of multifocal contact lenses. Made of the company's patented omafilcon A phosphoryl- choline (PC) material, the lens utilizes CooperVision's PC Technology. This creates a biocompatible material that allows the eye to accept the lens more quickly, CooperVision claims. The UltraVue product line offers expanded parameters and multiple base curves.

The lens uses Balanced Progressive Technology, a multifocal system that maximizes binocular visual acuity at all ranges, the company says.

CooperVision
Phone: (800) 341-2020
Web: coopervision.com
 

The school of "Real Life"

K Transitions Optical announced that it is offering new "Skills Workshops for Real Life." The courses, a broadening of Transitions' Partners in Education program, focus on the basics of dispensing photochromic lenses. Transitions can present the courses in only 15 to 20 minutes and they can take place in-office. One individual or the entire practice may participate. The courses "Presenting Transitions Lenses" and "Transi-tions and Kids — A Great Combination" are currently available.

Transitions Optical
Phone: (800) 848-1506
Web: transitions.com