Eye Supervision Academy

What does it mean when you have got 20/20 Vision? 20/20 Vision is a term coined from an in office test to determine visual acuity or clarity of vision.  If we're getting technical, the term 2020 actually refers to the size of a letter, a person can read when they are 20 feet away.   When you walk into the exam room, and you see the Big E on the top of the chart, that's a 2200 letter. The next line down is 2100 and so on and so forth until you get to that small 2020 line, which is actually optimal vision that we check for in the exam. When patients have trouble seeing smaller letters on the eye chart, glasses and contacts can be prescribed to correct vision to a point where the 2020 line becomes focused.  Measuring visual acuity is important, and is used as a way for your eye doctor to standardize how you're seeing over time.  It can be used as a comparison tool from exam date to exam date.  For example, if you saw 2020 last year, and you're seeing the 2030 ...

Today I am going to review the PROS and CONS of daily Vs monthly contact lenses helping you figure out the best contact lens for you and your lifestyle.. This is one of the biggest decisions if you are a contact lens wearer for a long time there is really a big difference in categories between daily vs monthly contacts and it can be kind of tough to figure out which one is right for you.  Daily reasons are strongly encouraged for the health care reasons. As technology has developed more companies have moved away from monthly lenses switching to more of those single-use one day lenses or dailies are using being replaced every single day and they don't carry the bacteria and the proteins and other kind of allergens that can get stuck to monthly lenses they're not bwing carried over because you're opening up a fresh new lens every single day. So one of the biggest benefits of day lenses is for health benefits. In addition to the lesser chance of infection daily lenses again be...

Things we can do to slow the progression or prevent AMD is much longer often than the things that we can't control like our genes or what stage of macular degeneration we happen to have at some point. We all know its important to avoid excessive sunlight wear sunglasses not smoke.  But nutrition matters, clinical trials tells us that how diet and lifestyles can influence our risk for inflammation oxidative stress high blood lipids and high blood pressure which we know promote conditions like AMD also some of our indormation comes from population studies like what we conduct which is able to provide information about the potential effects of various diets over longer periods of time than can be tested in clinical trials and in a greater variety of people and pick up clues about some of the aspects of nutrition that may not yet be studied in clinical trials. The data suggests that nutrition can matter a lot in studies.  If we eat enough lutein, it absorbs blue light which can ot...

There are lot of patients out there who have had lasik surgery in the past and initially their vision was fantastic with LASIK surgery but as years and decades pass their vision gradually becomes more blurred or they start needing glasses to see their best and the whole point behind having LASIK surgery was they didn't want to have to wear glasses so their perception when they come into the office is that the LASIK surgery that they had years ago results have worn off. In short LASIK surgery has worn off. Is this true? Does LASIK surgery really wear off? or is there another reason why vision changes and these patients start needing glasses to see their best so what actualy happens is that there are actually two focusing structures of the eye, the cornea and the lens. Lasik surgery modifies the performance of the cornea but the lens inside the eye continues to age and as we grow older the lens loses its flexibility it grows larger in size and eventually it turns cloudy in a proces...

So if you are buying glasses and there are ton of coating options and you're overwhelmed you don't know what to do. Well I'm gonna try and help you there so stick around Photochromatic Vs Polarized Vs Transition lenses: Photochromatic just means any types of lens that changes colors or darkens.  Transition even though most people when they mean photochromatic lens they say "I want a pair of transition lenses" and what they mean is "I want a pair of lenses that gets dark in the sun well that's actually a brand name and whereas this one does the exact same thing only it's a different name from a different company. There is no difference transition is just a specific brand of a photochromic lens. You will notice that polarized lens is dark even though we are inside transition and photochromic  will darken once they are in direct contact with the sun. So the question is what's the difference between the two? Well the difference is these are outdo...

 So choosing an optometrists isn't easy. There's personalities that you have to match up with. You're gonna have to like their staff, their location. You're gonna have to know whether you want a big practice or a small practice. Do you want a more medical-based practice, or do you want someone who's really good with just general optometry and maybe contact lenses?  Optometrists around me So all of these questions remain out there and you're gonna have to find your way through all of this. Go to google type eye doctors around me and that's gonna give you a list of eye doctors around you. That you may scope out and take a look at, and then when you get that list, I want you to then look at the Google reviewsand for most of them it's as easy as just scrolling over their name on the map and it's gonna tell you approximately where those reviews are. You are clearly gonna be able to rule out a 3.7 compared to a 4.9, but some of them may be close, and t...

When the eye doctor is talking about 1 & 2 which is better back and forth all of that junk.. It is an attempt to determine, by trial and error using the patient's cooperation, the combination of lenses that will provide the best corrected visual acuity (BCVA). It is a clinical examination used by optometrists, orthoptists and ophthalmologists to determine a patient's need for refractive correction, in the form of glasses or contact lenses.  Following equipments are used for refraction testing: Retinoscope or autorefractor Trial frame  Trial lens box including the pin hole and ocloder Keratometer Snellen chart Slit lamp Phoropter Performing the test Before commencing a refraction, ensure that: The patient is seated at a 6-metre distance from the Smellen Chart.  The illumination in the testing room is at a comfortable level of brightness for an indoor setting. Setting up the patient Comfortably fit the trial frame onto the patient, by adjusting the nose piece, Inter-pup...