Training aids

Visual library

Use these cards while teaching staff or explaining a prescription, lens, coating, or frame charge to a patient. Select any card to enlarge it or download it. Search by the brand on the box, the term on the lab order, or the words the patient used.

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Prescriptions

What the prescription numbers mean

A sample prescription with plain-language definitions for SPH, CYL, axis, add, prism, and PD.

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Prescriptions

Troubleshooting a prescription with trial lenses

A six-step routine for using small trial-lens changes to tell a prescription problem from a fit problem.

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Lenses

Choosing the lens material

CR-39, Trivex, polycarbonate, and high-index compared on thickness, weight, durability, and optics.

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Lenses

What premium progressives add

How a progressive blends distance, intermediate, and near — and what a premium design changes.

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Lenses

What a progressive lens sale needs

The six steps from frame choice to lens design, and the measurement each one turns on.

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Lenses

Getting used to new progressives

Six first-week complaints from new progressive wearers, and what to tell the patient about each.

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Lenses

What Eyezen lenses are

Single-vision lenses with a small near boost, and what the Eyezen support levels mean.

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Lenses

What Stellest lenses are

Myopia-management lenses for children: a clear centre ringed by lenslets, and who they may suit.

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Coatings & light

Coatings that help your glasses

What anti-reflective, UV, blue-violet filtering, and easy-clean coatings each do.

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Coatings & light

Crizal coatings, explained

What the Crizal family changes, and how Easy Pro, Rock, Sapphire HR, and Prevencia differ.

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Coatings & light

What polarized sunglasses do

How polarization cuts reflected glare, where it helps most, and why UV protection is separate.

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Frames & fit

Why some frames cost extra

Why rimless, edge-grooved, and oversized frames carry an additional copay for the lens work.

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Frames & fit

Frame adjustments for common complaints

Six things patients say about the fit, and the adjustments each one points to.

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