Envisioning a Brighter Future
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corporate profile partner content Clockwise from top: Designs for Vision’s Micro4.5EF, Micro3.5EF and Micro2.5x Standard Field scopes. Envisioning a Brighter Future Designs for Vision continues to reap the rewards of its optical research, ensuring that clinicians truly “see the light” s it enters its seventh decade of business, Designs for Vision, through research and development, continues to embrace its original mission statement: to help people from all walks of life better realize their full potential through better vision. Today, more than 200,000 of the company’s optical products are used daily by dentists and surgeons in their efforts to improve their patients’ quality of life. Richard Feinbloom, Designs for Vision’s president, acknowledges that most dentists today probably own a pair of loupes, but as the nature of dental procedures evolves, he advocates matching magnifications with specific procedures. For instance, a cosmetic dentist might use 2.5x magnification loupes for general work on veneers, but may want to switch to 4.5x for final positioning for the best viewing of margins. “I would think by now every general dentist has a pair of 2.5s,” Feinbloom said. “That’s the entry point for starting to use loupes. However, I think most general dentists—if they want to start doing endo—have got to at least move up to 3.5x magnification,

Observations from the field Dr. Michael Barr, a Townie who operates a private practice in Boynton Beach, Florida, refers to his Designs for Vision LED DayLite and 3.5x loupes as his “normal vision now,” and says he utilizes them for all procedures. “I do my exams magnified and illuminated, even exams in my hygiene room,” Barr said. “Certainly, there are certain situations where you really do need magnification. The first one is obvious—root canals.” Commenting on dentists who firmly maintain that their naked eyesight alone is sufficient to practice dentistry, Barr said: “Throughout my...

corporate profile partner content The view through a standard-field set of 2.5x loupes ... Expansion, automation, implementation In its ongoing effort to be in the vanguard of optical research, Designs for Vision recently expanded, relocating into a 67,000-square-foot building on Long Island, New York, that the company completely renovated, redoing, according to Feinbloom, “eventually everything down to the studs.” And with this expansion came the implemention of new manufacturing technology. through a standard-field set of 3.5x loupes ... “It’s all about automation—for example, CNC lathes...

and through Designs for Vision’s Micro4.5EF loupes. through Designs for Vision’s Micro3.5EF loupes ... “I strongly advocate for products that significantly improve our work comfort and result in a price that doesn’t require a loan or a consultation with your spouse. Designs for Vision is not the cheapest loupes manufacturer on the market, but consider this: I was a fairly serious amateur photographer years ago, and a good photographer knows that you spend your money on the glass—it’s all about the glass, and cheap glass is not the same as expensive glass. When it comes to the optics, if you...