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Your Eye Glasses & Contact Lenses

An optician provides lenses for the correction of vision defects.

The lenses may be contact lenses, or held in a frame in front of the eye, most frequently as a pair of glasses or spectacles.

These eye care professionals analyze and interpret prescriptions written by ophthalmologists or optometrists to determine which eyeglasses or contact lenses are best suited for the patient.

As compared to ophthalmologists and optometrists, they are the least qualified in the field of eye care.

They usually work with either of the former and help filling in their prescriptions and/or dispensing eyewear in the form of lenses or glasses, according to the patient’s lifestyle and personal needs.

The most important job of them is to fix eyeglasses and/or lenses for people needing vision correction.

Therefore, they are authorized and certified to cut and modify lenses to fit the frame chosen by the customer.

Some of them manufacture or grind these lenses from the basic raw materials, others just cut to fit.

It is also their job to ensure that the placement of the lenses is proper and accurate without any distortion.

For this they take measurements individually, because they differ from person to person.

Verification of the accuracy of the final finished product is also their responsibility.

For contact lenses, he/she needs to first examine the patient’s eye carefully to measure the eye curvature.

For this purpose a special microscope is used.

The optician also guides and instructs the patient in the handling and care for his/her contact lenses.

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