How do they match: Opticians, Dispensing

  • Contact Lens Fitter
  • Contact Lens Technician

  • Design, measure, fit, and adapt lenses and frames for client according to written optical prescription or specification. Assist client with inserting, removing, and caring for contact lenses. Assist client with selecting frames. Measure customer for size of eyeglasses and coordinate frames with facial and eye measurements and optical prescription. Prepare work order for optical laboratory containing instructions for grinding and mounting lenses in frames. Verify exactness of finished lens spectacles. Adjust frame and lens position to fit client. May shape or reshape frames. Includes contact lens opticians.

  • Maintain records of customer prescriptions, work orders, and payments.
  • Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices.
  • Obtain a customer's previous record, or verify a prescription with the examining optometrist or ophthalmologist.
  • Sell goods such as contact lenses, spectacles, sunglasses, and goods related to eyes, in general.
  • Show customers how to insert, remove, and care for their contact lenses.

  • Operate diagnostic or therapeutic medical instruments or equipment.
  • Fit eyeglasses, contact lenses, or other vision aids.
  • Merchandise healthcare products or services.