Diagnose, manage, and treat conditions and diseases of the human eye and visual system. Examine eyes and visual system, diagnose problems or impairments, prescribe corrective lenses, and provide treatment. May prescribe therapeutic drugs to treat specific eye conditions.

Other names for Optometrists: Doctor, Doctor of Optometry (OD), Optometrist, Optometry Doctor (OD),

• Examine eyes, using observation, instruments and pharmaceutical agents, to determine visual acuity and perception, focus and coordination and to diagnose diseases and other abnormalities such as glaucoma or color blindness.
• Analyze test results and develop a treatment plan.
• Prescribe, supply, fit and adjust eyeglasses, contact lenses and other vision aids.
• Prescribe medications to treat eye diseases if state laws permit.
• Educate and counsel patients on contact lens care, visual hygiene, lighting arrangements and safety factors.
• Consult with and refer patients to ophthalmologist or other health care practitioner if additional medical treatment is determined necessary.
• Remove foreign bodies from the eye.
• Provide patients undergoing eye surgeries, such as cataract and laser vision correction, with pre- and post-operative care.
• Prescribe therapeutic procedures to correct or conserve vision.
• Provide vision therapy and low vision rehabilitation.

• Ophthalmic lens holders
• Ophthalmic lens holders
• Ophthalmic instrument tables or accessories
• Eye charts or vision cards
• Combination refractor keratometers
• Ophthalmoscopes or otoscopes or scope sets
• Ophthalmic slit lamps
• Eye charts or vision cards
• Ophthalmic instrument tables or accessories
• Ophthalmic eye test lenses or accessories
• Ophthalmic eye test lenses or accessories
• Color perception testing lanterns
• Combination refractor keratometers
• Eye occluders
• Loupes
• Thickness measuring devices
• Corneal topographers
• Desktop computers
• Eye charts or vision cards
• Photo attachments for microscopes
• Ophthalmic surgical knives or blades or scissors or accessories
• Ophthalmic eye test lenses or accessories
• Ophthalmic lens holders
• Opticians tools or accessories
• Ophthalmic prisms
• Eye charts or vision cards
• Ophthalmic eye test lenses or accessories
• Eye charts or vision cards
• Ophthalmic irrigation or aspiration supplies or accessories
• Lachrymal dilators or sets
• Opticians tools or accessories
• Lens measuring equipment
• Ophthalmic lensometers
• Ophthalmic prisms
• Mechanical stethoscopes or accessories
• Eye occluders
• Eye occluders
• Eye charts or vision cards
• Ophthalmic eye test lenses or accessories
• Notebook computers
• Ophthalmoscopes or otoscopes or scope sets
• Opticians tools or accessories
• Eye charts or vision cards
• Personal computers
• Phoropter units
• Eye charts or vision cards
• Binocular vision test sets or accessories
• Ophthalmic visual function analyzers
• Ophthalmic retinoscopes
• Ophthalmic retinoscope accessories
• Ophthalmic medical instrument sets
• Eye charts or vision cards
• Ophthalmic retinoscope accessories
• Eye charts or vision cards
• Opticians tools or accessories
• Blood pressure cuff kits
• Ophthalmic tonometers or accessories
• Ophthalmic transilluminators
• Ophthalmic eye test lenses or accessories
• Opticians tools or accessories
• Binocular vision test sets or accessories
• Ophthalmic eye test lenses or accessories

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