Will “Licensed Dispensing Optician (LDO)” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔
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“Licensed Dispensing Optician (LDO)” will maybe be replaced by robots.
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Job Description
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.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-2081.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 37,860.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 18.00
- Currently, there are 75,270 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Opticians, Dispensing”.
Also Known As…
- Opticians, Dispensing
- Optometric Technician
- Optometric Assistant
- Optician
- Optical Technician
- Ophthalmic Dispenser
- Licensed Optician
- Dispensing Optician
- Contact Lens Technician
- Certified Optician
- Optician Apprentice
- Optical Manager
- Optical Dispenser
- Optical Assistant
- Licensed Optical Dispenser
- Licensed Dispensing Optician (LDO)
- Eyeglass Fitter
- Dispensing Optician Apprentice
- Dispensing and Measuring Optician
- Contact Lens Fitter
Tasks for “Licensed Dispensing Optician (LDO)”
- Assemble eyeglasses by cutting and edging lenses, and fitting the lenses into frames.
- Determine clients' current lens prescriptions, when necessary, using lensometers or lens analyzers and clients' eyeglasses.
- Fabricate lenses to meet prescription specifications.
- Instruct clients in how to wear and care for eyeglasses.
- Assist clients in selecting frames according to style and color, and ensure that frames are coordinated with facial and eye measurements and optical prescriptions.
- Obtain a customer's previous record, or verify a prescription with the examining optometrist or ophthalmologist.
- Show customers how to insert, remove, and care for their contact lenses.
- Sell goods such as contact lenses, spectacles, sunglasses, and other goods related to eyes in general.
- Verify that finished lenses are ground to specifications.
- Measure clients' bridge and eye size, temple length, vertex distance, pupillary distance, and optical centers of eyes, using measuring devices.
- Supervise the training of student opticians.
- Evaluate prescriptions in conjunction with clients' vocational and avocational visual requirements.
- Maintain records of customer prescriptions, work orders, and payments.
- Order and purchase frames and lenses.
- Recommend specific lenses, lens coatings, and frames to suit client needs.
- Grind lens edges, or apply coatings to lenses.
- Prepare work orders and instructions for grinding lenses and fabricating eyeglasses.
- Arrange and maintain displays of optical merchandise.
- Perform administrative duties such as tracking inventory and sales, submitting patient insurance information, and performing simple bookkeeping.
- Repair damaged frames.
- Heat, shape, or bend plastic or metal frames to adjust eyeglasses to fit clients, using pliers and hands.
Related Technology & Tools
- Optical cutting pliers
- Angling pliers
- Flat nose pliers
- Laptop computers
- Lens analyzers
- Hex wrenches
- Optical screwdrivers
- Pupillometers
- Cold-bend pliers
- Personal computers
- Lens clocks
- Bushing pullers
- Focimeters
- Credit card processing machines
- Lens files
- Desktop computers
- Chain nose pliers
- Contact lens thickness gauges
- Digital pupilometers
- Snellen eye charts
- Screw-holding tweezers
- Millimeter rules
- Cash registers
- Lens aligning pliers
- Pickup screwdrivers
- Optometric lensometers
- Nose pad adjusting pliers
- Half-round files
- Dial calipers
- Autorefractors
- Phillips head screwdrivers
- Bracing pliers
- Digital calipers
- End piece pliers
- Snipe nose pliers
- Straight screwdrivers
- Hollow snipe pliers
- Contact lens tweezers
- Frame warmers
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- Specialist Data Solutions OctoPlus
- Insight Software My Vision Express
- Microsoft Office
- Compulink Eyecare Advantage
- Intuit QuickBooks
- Microsoft Word
- Diversified Ophthalmics Practice Maximus
- EZ-Zone Optizone Enterprise
- Point of sale POS software
- Cygnet Infotech Optifocus
- EMRlogic Systems ENTERPRISE Visions
- Microsoft Excel
- HealthLine Systems Eyecom
- First Insight MaximEyes