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[Optometry Student Share] 15 Reasons to Date an Optometrist

2014-05-31T13:11:00.000+08:00

They are the wonderful professionals who protect our eyes, ensure our optimal vision, and help prevent disease. Many of the qualities that make these men and women so valuable in their careers translate into personal relationships.

[Optometry Student Share] Specialty Progressives - PART ONE

2014-02-18T14:48:00.002+08:00

For years bifocal and trifocal lenses were worn by the majority of presbyopic spectacle lens wearers. Yet they were not able to satisfy all the visual needs for every wearing situation. As a result, a number of segmented specialty lenses developed.

[Optometry Student Share] Visual Acuity

2014-01-27T17:59:00.005+08:00

Visual acuity often is referred to as “Snellen” acuity. The chart and the letters are named for a 19th-century Dutch ophthalmologist Hermann Snellen (1834–1908) who created them as a test of visual acuity.

[Optometry Student Share] Optical Characteristics of General Purpose Progressives

2014-01-26T15:23:00.002+08:00

The first successful progressive addition lenses were designed to maintain some of the characteristics of a bifocal. One criterion considered to be important was maintaining traditional lens optics in the upper half of the lens. If this is done, the power from the midline upward corresponds exactly to the prescribed distance power. At the midpoint of the lens and downward following the expected path of the eyes, plus power begins to increase. Once the full add power is reached, lens power does not vary.

[Optometry Student Share] Get your fix of eye healthy foods

2014-01-22T13:20:00.000+08:00

Get your fix of eye solid nourishments and ensure yourself from eye sickness in the meantime with this simple aide to the best eye sound sustenances.

[Optometry Student Share] What’s gradual, painless and dubbed the Silent Thief of Sight?

2014-01-11T14:45:00.001+08:00

The answer is Glaucoma, an eye disease that gradually makes you lose your vision. If you've been proactive in screening your health, you might as well surely have a really exceptional thought of certain health conditions that run in the crew. for instance, mother has high cholesterol, father has diabetes and you recollect your grandma utilization eye drops for something. Knowing your family eye history is exceptionally imperative in light of the fact that most eye diseases have a tendency to be hereditary. Glaucoma, for instance, has a tendency to run on the mother's side of the crew. If your mother has glaucoma, verify you tell your optometrist.

[Optometry Student Share] How to clean your eye glasses

2013-12-31T12:21:00.004+08:00

In this way, you've been working in the yard and your eye glasses are secured in gravel or your child chose to take his mud pies a little too seriously. That would not joke about this may be an ideal opportunity to break out the great of cleanser and water. Here are some quick steps to follow to verify you are cleaning your glasses without unnecessarily harming them along the way.

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[Optometry Student Share] Back to School – Vision problems could equal behavioral issues

2013-12-30T15:52:00.002+08:00

Your kid may have inconvenience checking whether they aren't performing to their potential in school, or have behavioral issues.
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[Optometry Student Share] I have an astigmatism. What is that?

2013-12-22T17:31:00.000+08:00

Astigmatism is a term utilized by optometrists to portray a prescription for one eye that needs two forces to carry it into centering. It is not an ailment or something that will make you go blind, however it can make things blurry at separation and at close.
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[Optometry Student Share] “What if 1 and 2 look the same?!”

2013-12-21T18:04:00.003+08:00

A regular concern for some of my patients is whether they don't let me know the right decision of lens, then their prescription for that year will be off and not work legitimately. This is not accurate. The point when an optometrist is exchanging between lenses (which we in "the business" call a refraction), we are adjusting a prescription utilizing the patient's include to uncover the lenses that are the most acceptable and agreeable.

[Optometry Student Share] The ABCs of Cataracts

2013-12-21T05:30:00.000+08:00

Cataracts are an unavoidable truth. Any individual who lives long enough will get them and practically every living soul knows somebody who has had them. The great news is, with the most recent engineering accessible, enhancing your vision is exceptionally protected and will in many cases abandon you with preferred vision without glasses over you had soon after the waterfall.

How about we take a gander at the Abcs of cataracts:
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[Optometry Student Share] Getting your kid a video game this holiday? Vision concerns answered

2013-12-20T20:01:00.000+08:00

With the holiday season in full impact, you can wager that numerous children will be accepting a movie amusement or another framework in the following not many weeks. indeed, one million Playstation 4 reassures were soon to be discharge in Malaysia.

[Optometry Student Share] Regular myths about eyeglasses exposed!

2013-12-19T22:45:00.001+08:00

As an optometrist, I regularly hear a mixture of misinterpretations about eyeglasses from my patients. Most concerns succumb to a couple of general classes with a couple of odd ones sprinkled in. I might want to take a concise minute to address a percentage of the most widely recognized ones I listen:

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[Optometry Student Share] Color blindness – the causes and the effects

2013-12-17T19:03:00.000+08:00

When we consider somebody being color blind, we might surmise that he sees the planet in dark and white, or shades of ash. But that is to a great degree extraordinary. actually, very nearly 8% of men have some type of color vision deficiency where certain colors are more challenging to recognize, or don't show up as vivid as different colors. (Perhaps that clarifies the faulty wardrobe decisions my spouse here and there makes.)

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[Optometry Student Share] How our vision darken: Chemists split the code of cataract creation

2013-12-16T13:00:00.000+08:00

Discoveries by Uci, German specialists could help in sparing sight of millions

Irvine, Calif., Dec. 5, 2013 – Groundbreaking new discoveries by Uc Irvine and German scientific experts about how cataracts structure could be utilized to help counteract the planet's heading reason for visual deficiency, which right now influences almost 20 million individuals worldwide.

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[Optometry Student Share] Conjunctivitis

2013-07-19T02:00:00.000+08:00

Pink eye is a term used to describe an irritated pink or red eye. The medical term is conjunctivitis which is an inflammation of the thin tissue overlying the whites of the eyes. However, there are a variety of eye conditions that can cause an eye to become pink or irritated, although conjunctivitis is the most common cause. Conjunctivitis can often be categorized into 3 different categories:

[Optometry Student Share] Eyecare Myths Debunked, Getting the Facts Straight

2013-07-15T13:02:00.000+08:00

As an optometrist, there are several questions I hear pretty often. Questions that some may consider myths, while others deem them as fact. Today, I’m going to set the record straight. I’ve narrowed down the questions to the top five based on how often the question is asked or because some people are too embarrassed to ask.

[Optometry Student Share] You’ve been diagnosed with diabetes – what does that mean for your eyes?

2013-07-14T18:41:00.001+08:00

You’ve just been diagnosed with diabetes. Your head is still spinning with the news. Sensory information overload. Somewhere in between hearing those 3 words “you have diabetes,” you also heard that you should get your eyes checked. No problem.

[Optometry Student Share] Anatomy of the Eye 101

2013-07-13T18:27:00.000+08:00

As a teacher and a doctor, I talk about the eye on a daily basis to my optometry students and patients alike. I often use examples that my optometry students and patients can relate to. The eye is like a high definition video camera that captures images of the visual world in real time. If any part of your eye, that is, your “human video camera,” is affected or broken you may experience varying degrees of blurry vision, discomfort, or other common symptoms.

[Optometry Student Share] What is Low Vision?

2013-07-12T16:05:00.001+08:00

When you have reduced vision as a result of an eye disease, you can be classified as having low vision. Those with low vision usually complain of difficulty reading small text, recognizing faces or reading street signs. An optometrist with a sub-specialty in low vision seeks to maximize the best functioning area of the eye. This can be done with the use of low vision aids and devices.

[Optometry Student Share] New Human Body Part Discovered

2013-07-10T16:06:00.000+08:00

The newest addition to human anatomy is just 15 microns thick, but its discovery will make eye surgery safer and simpler. Harminder Dua, a professor at the University of Nottingham, recently found a new layer in the human cornea, and he's calling it (can you guess?) Dua's layer.

[Optometry Student Share] World’s First Telescopic Contact Lens Gives You Superman-Like Vision

2013-07-09T00:04:00.000+08:00

An international team of researchers have created the first telescopic contact lens; a contact lens that, when it’s equipped, gives you the power to zoom your vision almost three times. Yes, this is the first ever example of a bionic eye that effectively gives you Superman-like eagle-eye vision.

[Optometry Student Share] supranuclear disorder

2013-07-06T19:22:00.001+08:00

Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) (or the Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome, after the Canadian physicians who described it in 1963) is a degenerative disease involving the gradual deterioration and death of specific volumes of the brain

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[Optometry Student Share] Hyperopia

2013-07-06T17:30:00.000+08:00

Hyperopia or longsightedness is a condition in which the optical components of the eye are not strong enough and so light is not focussed onto the retina. This results in blurred vision that is usually worse at shorter distances.

People with hyperopia often have reasonable vision in the distance, but may find that their vision is blurred or that they experience feelings of eyestrain or headaches when doing near work such as reading.

[Optometry Student Share] Myopia

2013-07-04T15:57:00.000+08:00

What is Myopia?

Myopia, commonly called shortsightedness, is a condition in which light is focused in front of the retina, resulting in blurred vision. Shortsighted people can often see reasonably clearly at short distances, but will not be able to see distant objects clearly.

There is currently no cure for myopia, but spectacles, contact lenses and refractive surgery can all provide good distance vision for people with myopia.