Eyewear

Eyewear

Eyeglasses, goggles or other objects worn over the eyes, usually to aid vision or for protective purposes.

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color vision

Eyewear; Optometry

The ability to perceive differences in color, including hue, saturation and brightness.

retreatment

Eyewear; Optometry

See enhancement.

comanagement

Eyewear; Optometry

When two or more medical providers provide care to a patient. In refractive surgery it is common for an optometrist to provide preoperative testing and postoperative care with an ...

rigid gas permeable contact lens (RGP)

Eyewear; Optometry

A hard contact lens that allows significant amount of air to pass through. This type of lens often provides superior refractive correction to a soft contact lens.

topographic supported customized ablation (TOSCA)

Eyewear; Optometry

A system to use a topographical mapping system to guide the laser during refractive surgery.

custom cornea

Eyewear; Optometry

The trade name for the use of a wavefront guided custom ablation with the LADARVision excimer laser built by Alcon. Custom Wavefront Lasik Detailed Information.