Progressive Dispensing: Tips, Technique, and Technology
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1. Which of the following items is NOT required for proper progressive fitting:
A. The patient's prescription
B. Their occupation
C. How they spend their leisure time
D. How long it's been since their last exam

2. The best way to gather the required patient information is:
A. Ask questions during the dispensing operation
B. Ask questions during the refraction
C. Ask them when they make their appointment on
the phone
D. Have them fill out a Lifestyle Questionnaire when
they first visit the office

3. The primary reason for obtaining the patient information is:
A. To help determine which kind of frames they want
B. To aid in determining which lenses will work best
for them
C. To determine whether more than one pair of eyewear
is required
D. b) and c)

4. Explaining how progressive lenses do their work is important for:
A. First-time progressive wearers only
B. Only patients changing from bifocals to progressives
C. Every progressive patient
D. Only patients having trouble adjusting to their
new lenses

5. In selecting progressives for a patient, the best policy is to:
A. Find one design that works well and use it for everyone
B. Change progressive design only when the patient
asks for a different brand
C. Select the progressive design based on each patient's
needs
D. Change progressive design only when a shallow frame
style is used

6. The best procedure in dispensing progressives is:
A. Always discuss and determine which lenses will be
ordered first
B. Patient should select their frame first
C. It doesn't matter which is discussed first, frame
or lenses

7. When dispensing progressives, which type of frame is preferred:
A. The type of frame selected doesn't matter as
long as there is room for the progressive
B. Frames or mountings with adjustable pads are preferred
C. Plastic frames without pad arms are preferred

8. The important benefits of all-aspheric progressive designs are:
A. A more attractive appearance
B. They aren't sold in discount optical stores
C. They provide enhanced vision
D. a) and c)

9. When should a short corridor progressive be recommended:
A. When the patient asks for it
B. When the prescription indicates the need
C. When the patient chooses a small, shallow frame design
D. When the fitting cross height is higher than
manufacturer's minimum fitting

10. Photochromic progressives can be ordered in:
A. Only in standard 1.50 index
B. In standard and mid-index materials
C. In standard and 1.66 index
D. In standard, mid-index, poly, and 1.66 high index

11. Progressive addition curves are positioned:
A. Always on the backside
B. Always on the front surface
C. Usually on the front surface but a new internal design
positions them on the backside

12. When progressive curves are on the backside:
A. Visual fields are expanded
B. Magnification differences in various parts of the
lens are minimized
C. Ease of wearing is improved
D. All of the above

13. With an internal progressive, the front surface is:
A. Aspheric
B. Atoric
C. Spherical

14. When the pupil is positioned too high in the frame:
A. Increasing pantoscopic tilt will lower the pupil
B. Decreasing the pantoscopic tilt will lower the pupil
C. A different frame must be selected

15. Which of the following progressives offers atoric compensation of the prescription curves:
A. Short channel progressives
B. Internal design progressives
C. Soft design progressives
D. Hard design progressives