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Function vs. Fashion in Eyewear

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You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. Eyewear has been used since ancient times, beginning with simple protective goggles and advancing through the ages to become various forms of spectacles. Many advancements and changes to eye wear have come about from the necessity for a specific function or need. … Continued

Bringing Generations into Focus – Multifocal Contact Lenses

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You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. As an NCLE certified optician you already understand what it takes to fit and advise patients about contact lenses. However, there are changes occurring in the industry that understandably follow population changes happening today. New innovative designs and lens materials are now … Continued

Progressive and Advanced Design Multifocal Lenses

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You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. The optics of progressive lenses continues to improve as lens manufacturers create more sophisticated designs. The choices in progressive lenses, including those with personalized designs and measurements, provide the opportunity for an ECP to find the optimal lens for each presbyopic patient.

What Blue Can Do: Harm or Help?

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You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. Blue light has both benefits and inherent hazards and the optical industry is on the forefront of providing preventative optical technology. After working with the course, the ECP will better understand what type of education and preventative solutions to offer a patient. … Continued

Soft Contact Lens Care & Patient Education

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You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. The purpose of this course is to help refine the ECP’s ability to choose an optimal soft contact lens care system as well as best practices for patient training. A partnership between the patient and the ECP using various learning methods will … Continued

Instrumentation NEW

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You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. This course will provide valuable information about the use of a lensometer; including methods to verify or neutralize known and unknown prescriptions. The next objective is to review induced and prescribed prism, as well as how to split prism. Tools and devices … Continued

The Signs Point to a Change

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You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. The assessment, prevention and management of problems related to soft contact lens wear are critical areas of patient care. It is significant that many of these problems can be alleviated by changing to a different contact lens material, a different lens design, … Continued

Therapeutic and Bandage Contact Lenses

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You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. Healing or preventing an ocular wound, especially any damage to the cornea, requires special measures. Therapeutic and bandage contact lenses can be an important part of the healing process when the eye care professional and patient work together for the best results. … Continued

Contact Lens Dropouts and Washouts

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You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. When contact lens patients stop wearing their lenses, they become a washout or dropout. This is costly to the ECP practice in terms of time, reputation and most certainly profit. The purpose of this course is to give the ECP a better … Continued

The Contact Lens Dispensary: From Set Up to Inventory

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You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. A contact lens dispensary requires proper set-up, staffing and maintenance. Set up and layout facilitate patient flow and offer comfort and privacy. All staff members need to make a patient feel welcome, whether the staff member is directly or indirectly involved in … Continued

The Technology of Contact Lenses

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You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. Contact lenses are a modern technology with a historical perspective. First conceptually illustrated by Leonardo DaVinci, these tiny lenses were not actualized for centuries. Today’s technology is based upon early lenses that were extremely uncomfortable at best and dangerous at worst. The … Continued

Digital Systems – Not Best for All

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You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. The purpose of this course is to help the optical profession to understand the value of utilizing digital measuring systems, and to determine when it is appropriate to use manual or more traditional methods of taking facial measurements. We discuss the circumstances … Continued

The Contact Lens Dispensary OHIO SCD exp 12/31/2018

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You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. A contact lens dispensary requires proper set-up, staffing and maintenance. Set up and layout facilitate patient flow and offer comfort and privacy. All staff members need to make a patient feel welcome, whether the staff member is directly or indirectly involved in … Continued

Dry Eye Syndrome

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You are accessing a expired course. Please contact support to switch the course. Dry eye syndrome occurs when the eye cannot produce a sufficient quantity of tears or when the tears do not have a normal consistency. Dry eye syndrome is uncomfortable and can restrict or contraindicate many activities, can lead to repeated infections and … Continued