How To Recognize the Need For Bifocal Lenses

Recognizing the need for bifocal lenses is determined first by the doctor who diagnoses the patient with presbyopia. From there it is also terrific for an optician to learn the determining factors that point a patient to bifocals so that proper documentation can be provided to the doctor ahead of time for the examination. Share

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Learn And Teach Patients How To Properly Use Line Bifocals!

Learn how to wear and use line bifocal lenses. For first time line bifocal wearers, it can be slight adjustment getting used to seeing the world through them, but all opticians must know how to teach patients to use line bifocals, or ST-28s, 35s or D segments, therefore, learn how to teach your patients inside! [...]

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How To Read A Snellen Eye Chart

Learning how to read a Snellen Eye Chart is fairly simple.  In order to understand the way visual acuity is determined, first one must understand what is called the Snellen Eye Chart. Share

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What Exactly Is Astigmatism?

Astigmatism happens to be one of those long medical words describing in layman’s terms how the light lands at the retina due to either a distorted cornea or a toric cornea. Share

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What Is Pantoscopic Tilt & The Need For It In Eyeglasses?

Pantoscopic tilt.  What the whaaa?  Exactly.  Despite the fact that many have never even heard the term, it truly does exist, and it refers to an angle when it comes to eyeglass frames. Share

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Is Ocularist The Right Career For You?

One of the more lightly discussed fields pertaining to anything ocular is the field of the Ocularist. An Ocularist is one who works with ophthalmologists, and they are the professionals that someone with a specific ocular condition would one be referred to for a prostheses, or fake eye/ eye part. The specific ocular condition that [...]

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