Making and Fitting Spectacle Lenses

The art and science of transforming a written prescription to spectacle lenses fitted into a frame by a scientifically correct process is the job of an optometrist called an optician by the layman.

No effort should be spared in making and fitting lenses in appropriate frames. The comfort and relaxation of the eye depends on precise fitting of the lenses. There is considerable and highly specialized optical physics involved in making spectacles. Their correct fitting gives comfort and relaxation to the eyes, and their correct power gives improved vision. The choice of an optician should be based on the reputation, experience and service rendered to a patient along with a balance of humanitarian element and business acumen.

The Art and Science of Writing a Prescription

The clinical examination for a spectacle power lens is called refraction. All eye specialists are refractions besides being surgeons. But the science of refraction is also given as a clinical course to non-medical persons. It is called optometry and includes refraction and the making of spectacle glasses and their fitting into frames. The optometry course is of two or three years all over the world.

Nobody, except an eye specialist or an optometrist, is authorized to test the eyes though in the hard trade world of today every salesman claims to be an econometrist. The optometrist, however, always seeks the help of an ophthalmic surgeon when a problem involves more than eye testing. It needs to be emphasized that there is no alternative treatment by way of drugs to substitute glasses. In all cases, glasses must be accepted as a tonic for the eyes.