A dispensing optician who made false claims about the benefits of colour tinted lenses has been erased from General Optical Council (GOC) registers by a fitness to practise committee.
Leicester-based Zahir Ibrahim was alleged to have made misleading claims on Facebook in relation to the application of colour tinted lenses for the treatment of conditions, including autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, migraine, headaches and multiple sclerosis. The panel heard that Ibrahim made claims that tinted lenses could ‘straighten’ a patient’s eyes and help another patient walk in a straighter line.
Ibrahim has previously been erased from the register in March 2000, restored in July 2005 and was warned by the GOC for making similar claims about tinted lenses at a conference in 2015.