What is the difference between an eye exam for contact lenses and an eye exam for glasses?
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Eye exam for contact lenses includes the measurement of your eye specifically for the contact lens. Everyones eyes are different in shape and size, eventough they might look the same they are not. Everyone's steepness is different and diameter is different that is why the doctor has to do additional measuring. They also put a contact on your lens, and evaluate the movement and the health of your eye w/the contact lens on. You also come back after a week and they evaluate your progress of wearing the contact lens, which also includes to see if your eyes are healthy and also to see if the contact lens is appropriate. \nYou can get the exam for both you just have to ask, but be prepared to pay more for the contact lens exam since the doctor is doing more measuring and spending more time w/you.\nYou might think its unfair, and it is more expensive, and some insurances dont cover it, but believe me, being a student and having to go through 8 gruelling years of hell, you will understand why they charge you.\nEnjoy your contacts!!
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We do a very complete exam. Not a little quick doc-in-the-box exam. And we charge $65 dilation and all. Yo can get cheap glasses for around $70. Frames are actually much better after you get past the $120 range. Lenses can range from $59 to around $600 for all the bells and whistles.\n\nCan you be more specific?
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You hit the nail on the head.  I have severe astigmatism in one eye and slight astigmatism in the other.  If I don't wear the proper contact lenses in each eye my vision is extremely blurry and eventually I will get a headache.
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Optometry or opthalmology
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Optometry is a medical profession. The practitioner has obtained a degree of O.D. from a 4-year program following a Bachelor's Degree. \n\nOpthamology is the branch of medicine specific to the visual pathways and requires a M.D.
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Ophthalmologists are trained to do surgery. Optometrists are schooled in the developmental (behavioral, functional or environmental) aspects of vision. Optometrists are more apt to use lenses, prisms and vision therapy to enhance and improve visual function. Hope this helps :-)
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Depending on each person, if you wear a lot eye contact lenses that could lead you to some eye-illnes, like infections.\n\nThere are also many people that looks better with spectacles, so it could be also a good reason.
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It's perfectly fine to do that (as long as the contacts don't have any power and your glasses are up-to-date).  Just be sure that you're taking proper care of the contacts (cleaning them correctly, not overwearing them, etc).
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if you mean ophthalmology you'll need to go to medical school.  ophthalmology is a specialty in the medical field.
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Optician means one who prescribe glasses to correct the refractive errors of the eye.  It is a Technical Course.
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i also have myopia and astigmatism and i've been wearing contacts since i was 12. the only visible diff. between toric contacts and the regular ones are the three lines near the bottom. they're about the same in comfort as the regular contacts... dry eye is the usual prob for me. but you get used to it. i got an extended wear pair that i change every 6 months.
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Consider laser vision correction or contact lenses
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About $115.00, but this would include glaucoma testing,dialated retinal exam and refraction. Your exam should take at least 45 minutes. Save up the $ and get your eye exam from a good Dr. that someone who you respect has referred you to. Your eyes will thank you.
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Their function is essentially the same.  Like cameras, eyes have a lens that helps focus the image and a receptor of the image, called film in cameras, we have a retina filled with nerve endings that detect light sends it over to our brain to get interpreted.
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I know that this may sound stupid, but do you wear glasses, if not, have you had your eyes tested recently?
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You don't need to buy your glasses from where you were tested. Just get the prescriptions and go elsewhere. You can buy glasses for under twenty dollars online. That is where I buy mine and they are just as good as the ones the opticians sell for over a hundred.
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well the doctor is probably going to make a regular check up on your eyes to make sure they are ok and everything, and then he/she determines the size of your contact depending on the size of your iris...so then you try on a pair and he checks to see if they are the correct fit (my doctor uses this machine thing that gets really close to your eye, im not sure what it does exactly) and then the doctor or something else teaches you how to take care of the contacts and put them into your eye...