Optometrist

By: Karlee Post

Job Description

• A Optometrist examine eyes and helps vision problems, so basically an eye doctor.

Salary

• A Optometrist makes around 58,942-120,820, but the median of the higher and lower salaries is 88,410.

Closest schools

• If your interested the closest schools for optometry are around Houston, Texas; Oklahoma, and Alabama.

How many years?

• The appropriate amount of years to become a Optometrist are around 7-8 years.

Closest Optometrist

• The closest Optometrist near Texarkana is well, here in Texarkana, Texas.

COMMON PROBLEMS

• The main/most common problems are Farsightedness (people that see better

further away than closer), nearsightedness(people that see better closer

than further away), astigmatism(a blurred vision

caused by the cornea not being completely curved), and Presbyopia(an eye condition where the crystalline lens loses flexibility, which makes it difficult to focus on close objects).

Body systems

• The two systems that interact with optometry are the nervous and muscular system.

• The muscular system interacts with the eye by muscle tissue that allows the eye to turn and rotate in its socket

• The nervous system interacts with the eye by the optic nerve transmits that connects the eye to the brain.

Advancements

• Optometrists can now treat eye diseases and sometimes minor eye surgeries.