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Re:Fully-automatic robot dentist performs first human procedure by tredre3 on Thursday August 01, 2024 @04:36PM (#41133346)
For healthy adults a yearly eye exam isn't necessary.

Forcing people to do it just to get a contact prescription is indeed a cash grab.

But yes, they will sell it to you as being for your own good.

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Re:Fully-automatic robot dentist performs first human procedure by margalabargala on Thursday August 01, 2024 @07:37PM (#41134787)
You can get a paper copy of your contact lens prescription, which can be photographed and uploaded to online contact lens sellers.

Those sellers are incentivized not to look too closely at your prescription and whether the year has been altered.

Obviously breaking the rules doesn't make it less of a cash grab but at least one can work around it.

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