Slate Belt Optical & Hearing Center, LLC

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• Technician/Technologist

  Optician

  Eye and Vision Services Providers

  Primary

  Opticians help fit eyeglasses and contact lenses, following prescriptions from Ophthalmologists and Optometrists. They also help customers decide which eyeglass frame or contact lenses to buy.

  Taxonomy code 156FX1800X

• Optometrist

  Eye and Vision Services Providers

  Doctors of optometry (ODs) are the primary health care professionals for the eye. Optometrists examine, diagnose, treat, and manage diseases, injuries, and disorders of the visual system, the eye, and associated structures as well as identify related systemic conditions affecting the eye. An optometrist has completed pre-professional undergraduate education in a college or university and four years of professional education at a college of optometry, leading to the doctor of optometry (O.D.) degree. Some optometrists complete an optional residency in a specific area of practice. Optometrists are eye health care professionals state-licensed to diagnose and treat diseases and disorders of the eye and visual system.

  Taxonomy code 152W00000X

• Optometrist

  Pediatrics

  Eye and Vision Services Providers

  Optometrists who work in Pediatrics are concerned with the prevention, development, diagnosis, and treatment of visual problems in children.

  Taxonomy code 152WP0200X

• Optometrist

  Sports Vision

  Eye and Vision Services Providers

  An optometrist who offers services designed to care for unique vision care needs of athletes, which may include one of more of the following services: corrective vision care unique to a specific sporting environment; protective eyewear for the prevention of sports-related injuries; vision enhancement - which may include vision therapy and techniques to improve visual skills specific to the athlete's sport.

  Taxonomy code 152WS0006X

• Optometrist

  Occupational Vision

  Eye and Vision Services Providers

  Optometrists who work in Occupational Vision, the branch of environmental optometry, consider all aspects of the relationship between work and vision, visual performances, eye safety, and health.

  Taxonomy code 152WX0102X

• Technician/Technologist

  Eye and Vision Services Providers

  A broad category grouping different kinds of technologists and technicians. See individual definitions.

  Taxonomy code 156F00000X

• Technician/Technologist

  Contact Lens

  Eye and Vision Services Providers

  An optician or other ancillary support staff person who, where authorized by state law and trained or certified to do so, may fit or dispense contact lenses to a patient based on the prescription of an optometrist or medical physician.

  Taxonomy code 156FC0800X

• Technician/Technologist

  Contact Lens Fitter

  Eye and Vision Services Providers

  An optician or other ancillary support staff person who, where authorized by state law and trained or certified to do so, may fit or dispense contact lenses to a patient based on the prescription of an optometrist or medical physician.

  Taxonomy code 156FC0801X