CL 2-LEC Flashcards
Eye care professioanals
Optician, Vision therapist, Orthoptist, Optometrists, Ophthalmologists
An eye care technician who assists customers in finding lenses that suit them according to size and comfort
Optician
They are advanced provider and help people who have eye movement problems and binocular vision
Orthoptist
Treatment developed by Optometrists who specialize in how vision is used known as behavioral optometry
Vision Therapist
Are MD’s who diagnoses and treat all eye disease, performs eye surgery and prescribes and fits eyeglasses and CL
Ophthalmologists
Eye care provider that checks for vision, eye muscles, etc.
Optometrist
Severely dry eyes and need to wear scleral lens 24/7
Graft Host Disease
Process of deliberately reshaping the anterior cornea by utilizing specialty contact lenses to temporarily reduce refractive error
Ortho-K
Who is the first to introduce ortho-K
George Jessen
George Jessen names ortho-k as?
Ortho-focus
Who is the first to use corneal topography i ortho-K practice
Dr. Sami El Hage
He patented reverse curve configurations
Nick Stoyan
Utilized 3 district zone to effect a more controlled flattening of cornea
Contex OK-3
Corneal topography has ring exactly in the middle
Bull’s eye
If ortho-K is decentering upwards it means
lens is too loose
