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LEARNING OUTCOMES
The aim of the course is the students’ understanding of the specific concepts of Ophthalmic Lens Technology and techniques and methods of their application in the corrective spectacle frame in daily practices in their professional career.
Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to:
- understand specific concepts of Ophthalmic Lens Technology
- be familiar with problem solving and the application of Ophthalmic Lenses in a spectacle frame.
- know ways of dealing with special problems and exercises of understanding technological and
- scientific research methods in the subject of Ophthalmic Lens Technology.
- understand the execution of special corrective prescriptions.
SYLLABUS
Prisms. Definition, thin prism, deflection angle, angiometry, prism elements, use of prisms, decentralization, eccentric lenses.
Bifocal and triple lenses. Type and location of outbreak and prismatic problems from the Addition, Biplastic for children. Creation of “No-jump” of bifocals, execution of recipes with bifid.
Multifocal lenses, Progressive addition lenses, design methods, types of multifocal and behavior study, execution of multifocal prescription, application criteria and correction of refractive errors.
Aspherical lenses
Ophthalmic lens aberrations