Optometrist

Optometrists are professionals who conduct various eye examinations, prescribe appropriate glasses or contact lenses and also advise patients on visual problems. Optometrists are trained to detect common eye conditions such as cataracts, squints in children, dry eyes and more sight-threatening eye diseases such as diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and age-related macular degeneration for early intervention.

Optometrists play an important role in primary eye care to detect early silent eye conditions and to refer these to ophthalmologists. The greatest misconception of the profession is that the Optometrist’s role is solely in the prescription of glasses and contact lenses for patients.

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