Dispensing Optician: A description for the dispensing optician job
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Dispensing Optician: Fills ophthalmic eyeglass prescriptions and fits and adapts lenses and frames, utilizing written optical prescription: Evaluates prescription in conjunction with client’s vocational and avocational visual requirements. Determines client’s current lens prescription, when necessary, using lensometer or lens analyzer and client’s eyeglasses. Recommends specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs. Assists client in selecting frames according to style and color, coordinating frames with facial and eye measurements and optical prescription. Measures client’s bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using millimeter rule and light reflex pupillometer. Prepares work order and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses. Verifies finished lenses are ground to specification. Heats, shapes, or bends plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit client, using pliers and hands. Instructs clients in adapting to, wearing, and caring for eyeglasses. Sells optical goods, for example binoculars, plano sunglasses, magnifying glasses, and low vision aids. Repairs damaged frames. May also be required to hold license issued by governing state. May also fabricate lenses to prescription specifications. May also select and order frames for display. May also grind lens edges or apply coating to lenses. May also manage one or more optical shops. May also compute amount of sale and collect payment for services. May also fit contact lenses only and be designated Optician, Contact-Lens Dispensing (optical industry) (retail industry).
Job industry: optical industry retail industry
Other job descriptions:
Dispensing Optician
Dispensing Optician Apprentice
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