Dispensing Archives - Insight

Raising your profile and profits with ophthalmic lens technology

Myles Hume — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 04:57:03 +0000

Rodenstock’s DNEye technology has been available in Australia since 2018.

Differentiation and educating patients on varying lens qualities is one of independent optometry’s greatest challenges today. But an increasing number of practices are finding success with
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Measurements in dispensing: Part 1

Myles Hume — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 06:16:31 +0000

Figure 1 – Error boxes and eye placement.

Grant Hannaford discusses why practitioners get more from a lens with greater attention to quality measurements, and how this translates into better patient outcomes. Most, if not all,
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ADOA merger continues to progress

Callum Glennen — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 02:50:14 +0000

Recent changes to bylaws and constitutions are slowly bringing together Australia’s two dispensing organisations, following a 2019 commitment by the representative bodies to merge. The Australian Dispensing
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Bringing dispensing out of the Twilight Zone

Staff Writer — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 22:00:43 +0000

Is it me or does it feel like ophthalmic dispensing in Australia has been in a ‘Twilight Zone’ for the last decade? This once great and respected profession seems to have allowed itself to become increasingly
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Power compensations in prescription dive masks

Staff Writer — Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:00:26 +0000

A common misconception when glazing dive masks is that the refractive index of water needs to be compensated for. GRANT HANNAFORD demonstrates why this is not quite the case. One of the
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How to become an optical dispenser

Staff Writer — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:00:50 +0000

A meeting of Australia’s dispensers held during the O=MEGA19 conference in July 2019 highlighted that the profession suffers from lack of awareness outside the wider ophthalmic sector. In an effort to
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Taking optical dispensing to the next level

Staff Writer — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 17:14:40 +0000

The third Specsavers Dispensing Conference (SDC3) was run as a four-stop, one-day conference series that started in Perth and finished in Sydney, via Melbourne and Brisbane. Popular speakers, both new
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