Advance Eye Care Center's are Regina Optometrist and their mission is to provide their patients with high quality eye health care and eye wear that you and your family deserve. They provide full service eye care New patients are always welcome and this local, family owned business, invites you to become part of their family.  

Here they share a tip on Why Do We Dilate Your Pupils?  

One important part of your routine eye exam is assessment of the health of the back of the eye for any eye diseases.  Essentially, we shine a light through your pupil (like looking through a window) to illuminate the retina, and use some sort of magnification lens system to actually look at the retina and assess its health.

At Advance Eye Care Center, all our optometrists dilate our adult patients’ pupils at every routine exam. This is our internal office recommendation because it allows assessment of the maximum possible area of your retina. I am often asked why we can’t use retinal imaging to assess the same thing. Why do we do both? Wide-field retinal imaging, such as the Optos Daytona we have at our office, is able to capture an image of up to 80 per cent of the retina in optimal conditions without dilation in two dimensions. However, a thorough dilated retinal examination is able to assess the entire retina with stereoscopic (3D) views. This allows us to assess for retinal contour changes such as elevations or depressions which can be present in certain retinal conditions.  

The bottom line is this: your eyes are absolutely critical to almost everything you do every day. Imagine for a second what life would be like without your vision. How would you pour that cup of coffee without spilling? Recognize your child’s face? Get to work? Or even do your job once you got to work? Vision is that important. We know that you want the best vision possible for your lifetime. We realize that drops are not enjoyable; they leave you light sensitive and with blurry vision for a few hours. But what is worse: a few hours of blurry vision or a lifetime of blindness from missing something on your exam? 

We know the answer, which is why every exam I have done on myself or my family includes a dilation. We are family owned and operated with family values in mind; we want you and your family to receive the great care and service we would expect for our family. That is why we dilate every adult patient at every routine visit. 

The optometrists of Advance Eye Care Center are accepting new patients at all three of our locations: Regina, Lumsden and Grenfell. Join the family today, call 306.586.7036 to book an appointment, or request an appointment online at www.advanceeyecarecenter.com.  

Find Advanced Eye Care Centre Regina  online here or check out their listing for their address and full list of services in the REGINA DIRECTORY Health & Wellness Category - click here to read what their clients had to say about them when we surveyed them as part of the Trusted Regina verification process!  

Advance Eye Care Center's are Regina Optometrist and their mission is to provide their patients with high quality eye health care and eye wear that you and your family deserve. They provide full service eye care New patients are always welcome and this local, family owned business, invites you to become part of their family.

Here the Trusted Reginas Optometrists - the Advance Eye Care Center team share some great news!!

Advance Eye Care Center, Optometrists RAISES AWARD-WINNING AMOUNTS FOR EYE CHARITY

Trusted Regina partners and Regina optometrists, Drs. Myles Bokinac and Rhea Anderson and the staff members of Advance Eye Care Center have been acknowledged by Optometry Giving Sight as Bronze award level fundraisers, thanks to their efforts during the 2012 World Sight Day Challenge.

Drs. Bokinac and Anderson and practice staff raised funds during the month of October 2012 by donating proceeds of eye exam fees and fundraising donations from the practice patients. This money will be used to support sustainable eye care projects in underserved communities around the world, helping people who are needlessly blind and in urgent need of eye care. “We are very excited to have received a Bronze award. Since our Eye Health Month Fundraiser, we have opened two new locations and for next year plan to expand our fundraising efforts to both our Lumsden and Grenfell offices to help support this worthy cause.” said Dr. Bokinac. “I have supported Optometry Giving Sight for 5years and am proud to donate to such a worthwhile cause. The World Sight Day Challenge is a great way to help support the millions of people who don’t have access to the basic eye care that we can take for granted.”

Optometry Giving Sight is committed to supporting programs that focus on training local eye care professionals so that in time, people in need will have access to sustainable eye care from within their own community. A recent beneficiary of one of these projects is Samuel Chagwadira, who graduated in 2012 to become one of Malawi’s first ever optometrists. He said it was a dream come true. “To be part of the first group of graduate optometrists in Malawi feels great,” he said. “It is history in the making; we’ve written history!”

Optometry Giving Sight guarantees that 85 percent of all funds raised by optometrists and their patients go directly to supporting programs that give sight to those most in need. For more information about Optometry Giving Sight, visit www.givingsight.org 

 Advance Eye Care team

New patients are always welcome – book an exam at 586-7036 or online at www.advanceeyecarecenter.com.

Advance Eye Care Center's are Regina Optometrist and their mission is to provide their patients with high quality eye health care and eye wear that you and your family deserve. They provide full service eye care New patients are always welcome and this local, family owned business, invites you to become part of their family.

Here the Trusted Reginas Optometrists - the Advance Eye Care Center team share their tip on Varilux S Series Progressive Lenses:

Varilux S Series Progressive Lenses:

Last time we wrote about new technology in progressive lenses. Well, a couple of months have gone by and a new progressive lens has arrived with technology to surpass everything I talked about then. The new Varilux S Series progressive lenses arrived in early September to Canada. These lenses have been completely redesigned to create new visual performance benefits in a progressive lens.

Created by Varilux, the company that invented progressive lenses in 1952, the Varilux S Series offers many visual advantages over previous progressive lens designs. All previous progressive lens innovations have been refinements or improvements on the currently existing technology. In other words, all the previous lenses had the same basic starting lens blank. The lens blank in simple terms is the appropriate shaped plastic lens we start with. The lens blank is then surfaced - new curves are ground onto the lens to create the progressive. All current progressive lens designs start with the same lens blank technology so there is a limit to how far we can go to improve them.

Varilux has created an entirely new and different lens blank and this is how they have been able to create a new and better technology. This new lens blank design coupled with 3 new core technologies results in the most distortion free lens to date. The first core technology is called NanoptixTM. This technology can be likened to GPS – when lens backside is created the computer maps the power at each individual point and then when the front surface is created, the curvature is adjusted to eliminate the distortion at that point. The second technology is SynchroneyesTM – the pair of lenses is calculated and optimized as a pair to widen the field of vision seen by both eyes together. The third technology is called 4D – we can now measure a patient's leading dominant eye. The leading dominant eye is the eye that gets to a visual target first. By optimizing the lens design for the leading dominant eye the patient will have faster reaction speed and better dynamic vision. Three technologies and three advantages: stability in motion, wider field of vision and better reflex vision.

BOTTOM LINE: 90% less distortion than Varilux's current BEST progressive design AND 50% wider field of vision with both eyes working together than their BEST design as well.

For you this means wider usable area in the computer and reading areas of the lens, less distortion in the way of your vision, less head-turning required, better night vision through W.A.V.E. technologyTM, and overall a better visual experience. In a clinical trial, the Varilux S was rated superior to Varilux's best progressive lens in all 6 visual categories: dynamic (moving) vision, overall vision, distance vision, intermediate vision, near vision, and ease of adaptation to the lens.

Varilux has made improvements to the efficiency of their lab manufacturing process and now can manufacture and ship lenses within 24 hours. So you get premium progressives faster than ever before! Come into the office to learn more or checkout the online demo at http://sseries.variluxusa.com/Pages/default.aspx.

To experience the difference yourself, stop in at our optical dispensary at 500-4010 Pasqua Street, Regina to try the new Varilux S Series lenses today.

New patients are always welcome – book an exam at 586-7036 or online at www.advanceeyecarecenter.com.

References: Sahel J, Vision Institute of University of Pierre and Marie Curie, 2011. Wearer assessment of Varilux S vs Varilux Physio 2.0 Enhanced and other premium lenses. 2) Varilux S – Patient product brochure.

Dear Friend,

If you have just been diagnosed with cancer, or your cancer has re-occurred, now is the time you will want to really take an active role in your health. Right now you’re experiencing a wide range of emotions with the realization that you have cancer or that your cancer is back. Most of us haven't the first idea where to start when we hear Cancer... the 5 letter word that is harder to take than anything else. Reading the information below and attached, will give you a place to start...

 I began researching options for cancer treatments in 2009 after a good friend was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and told he had 6 months to live. He had limited options for treatment, little support for dietary changes that would improve his condition, and a lot of questions without answers. For a young father with 3 children under the age of 10, this was a very devastating time. We set out on a journey to access information and develop a cancer battle plan so he could fight for his life. While my friend did pass away, he lived for 15 months, not 6.

It was through the research we did, that I became involved in the medical travel for care field, and have been working with cancer patients looking for information so they could arm themselves with information, understand what options are out there to develop a battle plan to fight for your life. Most importantly, I came to understand that hope and support are the biggest things that we can offer along with guidance so you can plan to manage your recent diagnosis. We have so much information to share, much more than can be attached in one email, and much more than one can review without being overwhelming. I have included a few bits of information to give you something to consider and want to share with you that there are some incredible success stories, and yes, even for individuals that have a diagnosis of stages III and IV Cancer.

While no one can offer a cure, there are certainly options to consider that can enhance and improve your life. We are well connected to medical centers within and outside of Canada that combine universally accepted conventional therapies and integrated multi-disciplinary treatment plans. Each center provides a uniquely personalized care in the treatment of cancer, leukemia and other such diseases. These centers believe in treating the whole person, and offer healing, recovery, life and living strategies for people with cancer. We have been successful in developing a road map and then gently guiding our clients to centers that collaborate to improve life for Cancer patients. We hope the attached documents provide information to get you thinking about the questions you may have have about treatment and care options. You also will find the links we have included, most useful. Most of all, we hope that we’ll be able to help you by providing the quality of comprehensive information that you may be looking for.

It’s hard to imagine, but many Cancer Centers will give you a second opinion, including a private, one to one conversation with a Medical Oncologist, for no charge. If this is something of interest to you, just know that we can make this happen. It’s good to be able to talk with Doctors that speak of hope, provide encouragement and compassion while you consider what options you may have.

I would be glad to assist you with any further information or a connection to support and treatment options that you may be open to, and will leave it up to you to digest this information.

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Advance Eye Care Center's are Regina Optometrist and their mission is to provide their patients with high quality eye health care and eye wear that you and your family deserve. They provide full service eye care New patients are always welcome and this local, family owned business, invites you to become part of their family.

Here the Trusted Reginas Optometrists - the Advance Eye Care Center team share Trusted VLOG Tip

Eye Health- Glaucoma 

Find Advanced Eye Care Centre Regina  online here or check out their listing for their address and full list of services in the REGINA DIRECTORY Health & Wellness Category - click here to read what their clients had to say about them when we surveyed them as part of the Trusted Regina verification process!  

www.trustedregina.com is proud to be hosting a Talk to the Experts show " The Trusted Show' Every Month on Newstalk 980 listen to the previous shows here  . 

Decembers HEALTH & BEAUTY show features Trusted Regina experts :

Michael from Golds Gym Regina- your Trusted Regina Gyms Michael truly is a fitness Expert!

Dr Myles Bokinak – Advance Eye Care Centre  your Trusted Regina Optometrists

They joined Dave Arnold to chat about Trusted and to answer our Regina Facebook Fans  questions on everything Health & Beauty!

Listen to the  Show below ..send the link to your friends who missed the show or access all the Trusted shows on DEMAND on the Trusted Channel.  We are the only Regina directory that works for you!

Listen to hear who WON the prize package including a Golds Gym Mmebership, a $150 Gift Cert to Adavance Eye Care Centre and a Gift Certificate and basket from Chakari Spa!

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Part 2

Congrats to yet another Trusted Regina Facebook fan ..Dave picked your GREAT question and you win the great Prize package from the Trusted Regina Directory Experts!! It always pays to be a fan or a follower ( on twitter @Trustedcanada  ) of Trusted! Contests and things to be won all the time!

 Affordable Dental Care outside of Regina?

A Beautiful Smile Goes A Long Way!

Treat yourself to a vacation and return home with a beautiful smile! By travelling to get the dental care you need, savings can be BIG! That is, if you think saving 50-70% on dental is big... Our clients have combined dental treatments with their vacations, and the savings alone have paid for the trip!

Some people can save over $10,000 ..one person did just that when he started treatment for 4 dental implants. Here, in Canada, his quote for the 4 implants was estimated at $20K. Extractions and bone grafts extra. When he combined his dental appointments with travel, the savings were significant, more than 50%! While the first treatment was scheduled at the end of a business trip, the follow up appointment will be leisure. For under $10K the pricing included panoramic x-rays, 1 bone graft, 4 extractions, 4 titanium implants with porcelain crowns, and he enjoyed 10 days with palms trees and room service!

Dental tourism is gaining popularity as more individuals discover exceptional care is available at the fraction of the cost. Find top quality dental veneers, snap on smiles, laser whitening, crowns, bridges, implants, and restorative work for a fraction of what you would pay in Canada or the US. If you require dental treatment join the increasing numbers of people just like you that are saving money when they combine dental care with a business trip or vacation abroad! 

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Do you struggle with weight loss? Have you tried diets, bought books, tried gyms and nothing seems to work? You deserve to be happy and healthy, and Debra Simons with Weight No More Consulting can help. Weight No More provides surgical weight loss solutions and support to individuals suffering from obesity.

Weight No More is your Trusted Regina weight loss expert!

Here we share a touching story that Involves Weight No More Consulting concerning bariatric ( or weight loss) surgery.

When Debra heard through news networks that Nova Scotia resident Lillian had written her own obituary after learning that she would have to wait 10years plus for weight loss surgery she felt she had to help....Debra contacted Lillian and offered to arrange the weight loss surgery with one of the surgeons she works with in Mexico ...Debra footed the entire $10,000 bill and the story was picked up covered by Global News 16 x 9 the Bigger Picture.

Here we share the whole engaging and emotional journey with you .

Click on the image below to watch the video

Connect with Debra today ..she wants to help.  

Advance Eye Care Center's are Regina Optometrist and their mission is to provide their patients with high quality eye health care and eye wear that you and your family deserve. They provide full service eye care New patients are always welcome and this local, family owned business, invites you to become part of their family.

Here the Trusted Reginas Optometrists - the Advance Eye Care Center team share their first Trusted VLOG Tip

DRY EYES?

Find Advanced Eye Care Centre Regina  online here or check out their listing for their address and full list of services in the REGINA DIRECTORY Health & Wellness Category - click here to read what their clients had to say about them when we surveyed them as part of the Trusted Regina verification process!  

Regina’s Directory of Excellence, www.trustedregina.com  is thrilled to introduce Weight No More Consulting as our newest partner in the Regina Health and Wellness category! Debra Simons, the founder of Weight No More Consulting, started the business out of a genuine desire to help people live a healthier, happier life, to make the decisions and choices that are right for them, and to support her clients completely in their journey. Weight No More will provide you with surgical weight loss solutions, pre and post-operative care, nutritional guidelines, as well as individual guidance and encouragement to help you every step of the way.

Weight No More Consulting is not just a business for Debra – it is her story as well-  

Here are Debras before and after Pictures

 Here is her Personal Journey in her own words:

“Hi my name is Debra, I have struggled with my weight my whole life, I have tried every diet out there, gone to the gym and yes I would lose weight but as soon as I would go off the program I would gain it back plus extra. I researched weight loss surgery for over 4 years and finally decided it was time I took my health into my own hands and worked towards getting healthy. On June 29, 2010, I had Gastric Sleeve Surgery and I am so happy that I did. I was on so many medications that one day I said to my husband,’I feel like your 90 year old Grandma, look at the medications lined up here on the counter’. I was on medication for high cholesterol, high blood pressure, water retention, acid reflux as well as anti-depressants. I hated myself and thought I was a loser. I couldn’t control what I was putting in my mouth and I didn’t want to go out, see anyone or attend any family functions. I felt I was a failure. I lost my mom to cancer 1 and 1/2 years ago but had made a promise to her that I would get healthy and I would look after myself. Having weight loss surgery has totally changed my life, in 3 months I am down 64 pounds and feel so much better. The most important factor is I am getting my health back. I am off all my medications and only take vitamins now. I was at the doctor the other day and she was amazed. My blood pressure was 117 over 72 and my heart rate was 60, she says “that heart rate is like a 15 year old. Congratulations you are totally on the road to good health.” I am so excited about the changes within me that I want to share them with you. I want you to have your health back as I do. I want you to be able to enjoy family functions and the fun things in life. You too can take control of your life and there are tools to help you. Let me share my experience with you and together we can turn your life into a healthy one. If you are interested in taking a step forward to your health, contact Weight No More Consulting and together we can make a difference in getting your health back.”

Debra’s own amazing journey continues, and nothing qualifies her to assist others more than that!

If you are exploring your options, and want to know more, give Debra and the team at Weight No More a call.

They are your Trusted Regina Weight Loss Experts on the Regina Directory of excellence!