My name is Erik Lawrence, I am an Optician in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I work with a wonderful doctor in a very unique private practice. I am married with 2 kids, while not relevant professionally, it does influence my thinking, and my writing. I want to use this as a way to reach out and help others that may not know what is needed, and also a way to share with everyone what goes on through the industry, my daily work and anything else I think may be of interest.
Please feel free to leave comments, email me with questions, I want to have some fun and help a few people along the way.
I also want to give some credit to Optiboard.com one of the best resources anyone in this industry can use. It just proves further, the more you think you know, the more you have no idea.
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For future postings, maybe you can write something about the things an optician takes note of when he has the customer at the dispensing table. I know you have to take care to mark the segment a couple of millimeters lower when you see that the person tends to hold their chin high (otherwise his segment will be visible to him when he is trying to look in the distance.) I'm searching but not seeing much on the web about these subjective dispensing techniques.
ReplyDeleteI know this is pretty delayed and I apologize.
ReplyDeleteEverything we do is very subjective, the refraction, measurements, recommendations, etc. they are all driven by the patients needs, our individual skills, and our comfort with the products available.
One thing i have done that really helped me until i was completely comfortable especially with seg heights of all kinds:
Mark the seg height, and leave it there. Talk with the patient for a few minutes and keep an eye on your mark and the patients eye/head movements, if you notice through the course of conversation that the line is consistently higher than you would like it to be, you can adjust it from there.
most patients assume an unnatural posture while we take measurements, so distracting them and allowing them to wear the frame they have picked out for a short time can help out quite a bit.
Its hard to make any solid recommendations about how to do many of the subjective measurements without quoting a text book. its one of the parts of the business you really pick up over time on the job.
please feel free to email me directly anytime if there is anything i can help you with, or explain further.