What Kind of Eye Professional ("Eye Doctor") Do You Go To?

This site, as well as many other contact lens related sites, makes numerous references to "eye care professional", "eye care specialist" or "eye doctor" in many articles and on various pages. This page is intended to clarify the three types of eye care professionals that typically care for your eyes which are opticians, optometrists and ophthalmologists.

The optician is the person who measures you for glasses and fits them to your face. This position requires special training and successfully passing a state board exam permitting the fitting of glasses and grinding of lenses.

An optometrist is a college graduate with four additional years of optometry school and has learned the art of refraction (correcting vision). Optometrists know how to fit contact lenses and diagnose eye conditions. They are not physicians but specialists in eye care.

An ophthalmologist is a specialist who has completed an undergraduate college education, four years of medical school, completed a one or two year internship and has spent three or four years in residency training in ophthalmology. Becomming an ophthalmologist usually takes at least 12 years.

Additional Site Information, References and Resources

Buy Contact Lenses Online. Getting your prescription so you can buy contact lenses online. When you buy contact lenses online you can save quite a bit of money, but by law (in the US), you need a prescription to get them.

Extended Wear Contacts - Extended wear contacts are soft or RGP (rigid gas permeable) that can be worn overnight from seven to thirty days but require more frequent office visits and follow-up care.t

Corrective Contact Lens Corrective contact lens, or corrective contacts, can provide temporary compensation for nearsightedness. Orthokeratology or Ortho-K is a non-surgical process that uses corrective contact lens, to reshape (flatten) the cornea to provide temporary compensation for nearsightedness.

Contact Lens Online - Buy contact lens online for the best selections and savings. Unlike some of the other products that you may buy online, when you buy your contact lens online, shipping costs are very low and in many cases free.

Kids Contact Lenses - Kids can be great kids contact lens wearers. Provided your child is mature enough to handle the responsibilities of wearing and maintaining kids contact lenses (cleaning them inserting and removing them and following instructions) there is no physical reason why they can not wear them.

Crazy Contacts - Crazy contacts and theartical contacts (flaming red eyes, cat eyes, spirals, cartoon characters, dollar signs, spider webs and more!) for extreme and wild new looks. Crazy contacts are available with vision correction and with no vision correction.

Sports Contacts - Contact lens offer great advantages to athletes playing sports and in sporting events and discount contact lenses offer advantages to athletes online!

Eye Nutrition and Vitamins A healthy diet, including some fairly well accepted eye vitamins (included in your diet or in supplements), can be an important factor in maintaining or improving your vision.

Toric Contact Lenses - Toric contact lenses offer new options to people with astigmatism. Toric contacts are now available in soft and ridig gas permeable (RGP) and are comfortable, afforadable and even disposable.

Wholesale Reading Glasses - Wholesale reading glasses can be an alternative to bifocal (or multifocal) contact lenses for people with presbyopia. The huge selection wholesale reading glasses online allow you to afford multiple pairs, for multiple locations (or different moods and looks).