optician BrE
ophthalmic optician BrE
optometrist AmE

I always go back to the same family run opticians.

When was the last time you went to the optician?

I took him to the optician while you were away.

She has been to an optician at least twice over the last few months.

They were still uncomfortable, so I went back into the optician.

His father was an optician, but had become well known for making model trains.

Much quicker than from the private optician my wife had to see last week.

Only thing was his Mum would take him to the opticians again.

I'm heading out first thing - to change my optician!

Training to become an optician is only available at a few British universities.

This can then be used at any opticians to have spectacles made.

"Maybe I should give you the address of my optician.

Filling the prescription is just part of the job for opticians.

A former optician, he received his nursing degree a year and a half ago.

We had to take our son to the ophthalmologist and the optician.

My literary friends say afterward, "You must really like your optician."

Ellen had long ago given up her part-time work at the optician.

"If you can say that after actually seeing me, perhaps we'd better have the royal optician check your eyes!"

In the past, people who wanted to become opticians spent four years as apprentices.

She married her husband John, a dispensing optician, in 1953.

I went back to the optician a few days after the lenses were fitted.

She began working as a teenager following the death of her father, later studying to become an optician.

Any eye doctor or optician can provide the number.

I have long had a habit of inviting my optician with me to book parties.

He was also involved in successful legislation regarding the registration of opticians.

Vision changes at around forty, so a visit to an ophthalmic optician is important.

Following his graduation he worked as an ophthalmic optician.

If the physical lighting is acceptable, and the eye-strain persists, consult your medical practitioner or an ophthalmic optician.

Its purpose is to regulate the services provided by opticians and optometrists (ophthalmic opticians).

Ophthalmic Optician.

Your sight can be tested only by a registered ophthalmic optician (optometrist) or an ophthalmic medical practitioner.

In 1980 the title British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists) was adopted.

'Even now nobody seems to know what triggered it off,' says Bethan 28, an ophthalmic optician from Nottingham.

Many "Ophthalmic Opticians" are certified in the bending of light with lenses (Vision Testing/Refraction).

An ophthalmic optician or optometrist tests for and prescribes glasses and can diagnose eye conditions, but doesn't treat eye diseases.

The British Optical Association (BOA) was founded in 1895 as the first professional body for ophthalmic opticians (optometrists) in the world.

An Ophthalmic Optician will verify a referring doctors written refraction before creating it and then consult with a client to design an ophthalmic lens or appliance to best meet their needs.

He was examining board president of the Queensland Institute of Ophthalmic Opticians from 1910 to 1925, and president of the Child Study Association of Queensland.

Optometrists (also known as ophthalmic opticians outside the United States and Canada) are trained to prescribe and fit lenses to improve vision, and to diagnose and treat various eye diseases.

Consultation can be made with the advisory service for the visually handicapped and the ophthalmologist will then usually refer children to the low vision clinic in the region or to an ophthalmic optician who specialises in low vision aids.

An Optician in the United States who has reached the highest levels of credentialing and education is known as an Ophthalmic Optician (O.O.)and is similarly trained and educated to the European Opthalmic Opticians.

This power was surrendered to the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists) (now titled the College of Optometrists) in 1979; in the 1980s, these examinations were conducted by the Association of British Dispensing Opticians.

The Society changed its name to the Northern Optometric Society in 1987 following the prior name change of the British College of Optometrists, and in line with the move from the term "Ophthalmic Opticians" to "Optometrists" in the profession at large.

Recommendations arising from assessments carried out by an educational psychologist, or from medical records containing information from ophthalmological examination, or from an ophthalmic optician prescribing low vision aids, will need to be translated into practice in the day-to-day classroom situation, and specialist help from an advisory teacher is invaluable here.

Where a user makes a specific request to exercise their statutory right for an eyesight examination by an ophthalmic optician, either as an alternative to or in addition to the voluntary screening programme, then the request should be accommodated and during this interim period the user permitted to use an ophthalmic optician of their choice.

Such a kit is small and available at any optometrist.

Her father, an optometrist, got the same treatment when he wrote a letter.

How many people in this town are going to the same damned optometrist?

Actually, for reasons that he did not understand, the optometrist was afraid of her.

Then go to a local optometrist and see if they can beat the price with the same set of features.

One is an optometrist and the other a city schoolteacher.

I was fitted by an optometrist, not a sales girl.

"My business will survive no matter what happens across the street," the optometrist said.

Ask your family doctor or optometrist to suggest a surgeon.

Having qualified as optometrist he joined his father's practice in 1921.

Important safety instruction: Do not have conversation on phone with optometrist.

Dawn told about a visit to her grandfather, an optometrist.

Once in the air, the optometrists begin to party.

It can be done in the optometrist or ophthalmologist's office.

As an optometrist, I'd always checked his vision, which was perfect.

One case is our optometrist on 72d Street, in business at the same site for 35 years.

Caitlin, 47, an optometrist, is on the board of the local historical society.

The optometrists make money from a procedure that eliminates the need for their services.

Optometrists often advise patients on whether the surgery is appropriate.

These tests may be done by an optometrist or an ophthalmologist.

He'd been told to see the optometrist today, so today it would be.

It was like reading eye charts with the optometrist: Better this way, or that?

If in doubt, they should ask an optometrist or ophthalmologist.

This service is designed to help the general public locate optometrists within a specific region.

"We're holding the information from the optometrist on the glasses.