Main description:

This book is a practical guide to the dispensing of spectacles for optometry trainees and opticians.

Divided into twenty chapters, the text begins with an overview of frame types and materials, different parts of a frame, and frame selection.

The next chapters discuss the selection of lenses for different ocular conditions, including prescription sunglasses, followed by detail on fitting and ordering spectacles.

The final chapter describes ten real life case studies experienced by the author.

Full of photographs, diagrams and tables, this useful manual provides trainees with step by step guidance on selecting, fitting and dispensing spectacles.

Key points

Practical guide to dispensing of spectacles for optometry trainees and opticians
Provides step by step guidance on frame types, lens types, and fitting for different ocular disorders
Includes chapter on prescription sunglasses
Features ten real life case studies experienced by the author

Contents:

CHAPTER 1: Introduction to Dispensing Optics
CHAPTER 2: Frame Types and Frame Materials
CHAPTER 3: Parts of the Spectacle Frame
CHAPTER 4: Frame Selection
CHAPTER 5: Lens Selection
CHAPTER 6: Pupillary Distance Measurements and Optical Center of Lens
CHAPTER 7: Multifocal Segment Height Measurements
CHAPTER 8: Dispensing in Myopia
CHAPTER 9: Dispensing in Hypermetropia
CHAPTER 10: Dispensing in Presbyopia
CHAPTER 11: Progressive Addition Lens Dispensing
CHAPTER 12: Prism Dispensing
CHAPTER 13: Dispensing Prescription Sunglasses
CHAPTER 14: Occupational Dispensing of Spectacle
CHAPTER 15: Digital Dispensing Systems and Lens Customization
CHAPTER 16: Lens Ordering and Verifications
CHAPTER 17: Lens Insertion
CHAPTER 18: Fitting Spectacle Frame
CHAPTER 19: Dilemmas of Optical Dispensing
CHAPTER 20: Case Studies

Bibliography

Index