14 Terms
Contributors in Contact lenses
Contact lenses
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 ophthalmologist ...
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.
