Seeing Well Through New Specs: the Power of Position
Available from: 1/08/2019
Learning Objectives
- 1. Understand the implications that ‘position of wear’ has on the effective power of spectacles compared with the same power in a trial frame,
- 2. Recognise how lens manufacturers compensate for these power and prism variations,
- 3. Appreciate a change in pantoscopic tilt and/or corneal vertex distance will affect the head and eye position when a patient accesses the near portion of a progressive lens, and
- 4. Appreciate the prism in a dispensed spectacle lens can differ from that of a trial lens.
Max points awarded: 2.00
Session Information
| Name |
|---|
| Seeing Well Through New Specs: the Power of Position |
| Activity Type |
| Independent Learning with Assessment |
| Therapeutic? |
| No |
| Manufacturer/Supplier? |
| No |
| Points for attending & Passing Assessment |
| 2.00 |
| Name | Activity Type | Therapeutic? | Manufacturer/ Supplier? | Points for attending & Passing Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seeing Well Through New Specs: the Power of Position | Independent Learning with Assessment | No | No | 2.00 |