VISION WORKS OPTOMETRIST
Optometrist in Sandton

Vision Works is best described as a small eye care organisation with a big heart, obsessed with the creation of excellence and the highest standards of eye care. Each Vision Works practice is dedicated to providing eye care experience on a personalised basis in the best interests of each and every patient. Vision Works understands the principles of partnering with appropriate reputable entities, to ensure that our customers enjoy the benefits of a world class approach to their general health. Our alliances with international frame and lens suppliers are what seperate us from the crop, we mix with the best, not the riffraff. Alliances such as Hoya, Mo' Eyewear and Gigi Barcelona are internationally recognised, top award winners, based on the quality of their products. Keeping things local, Vision Works boasts a truly South African alliance with household brand Dis-Chem Pharmacies, where customers enjoy the benefits of special promotions. Vision Works caters for the eye care needs of patients across the spectrum of socio-economic groupings. This includes accommodating private patients and patients on medical aids. Our Sunglass Destination offers discounted designer sunglasses that suit the pockets of all our customers. Vision Works optometrists are all registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa. Eye Care examinations conform to, if not exceed the highest standards of care as determined by the regulatory authorities. The colour of our eyes is attributed to our genetics and is determined by two factors: (1) the pigmentation of the iris and (2) the way light scatters around the iris itself. The concentration of colour is determined by the amount of melanin present in the eye. jade, hazel and emerald) are the result of an anomaly known as Rayleigh scattering; this is a term used to describe the way light scatters off of the molecules of the air, after riding its spectrum wavelength. Your eye colour is a function of how light diffuses across the melanin base, which again is genetically determined. Until recent studies, scientists believed that your eye colour was determined by one dominant gene. The assumption was that an eye colour hierarchy existed with shades of brown being at the top of the ladder and shades of blue on the lower end. In short, if your Dad had blue eyes and your mother had brown, it was believed that by default you would be born with brown eyes. Or alternatively, if both parents had the same colour eyes, you would then have the same colour eyes as your parents, otherwise known as recessive jeans. This basically means we can be born with just about any eye colour, regardless of what eye colour our parents have, however, the hereditary variables need to be factored into the equation. It is important to mention here that any race can have green eyes.