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Vision products aim to improve or maintain eye health and vision, helping people manage refractive disorders, dry eyes, age-related eye diseases, and vision loss due to underlying health problems. They include prescription eyeglasses, reading glasses, eye drops, and contact lenses, as well as low vision aids, assistive devices, specialized apps, and more.

 The effectiveness of these products depends on individual needs, proper usage, professional management of the underlying condition, and undergoing regular eye checks.

Common Questions & Answers

What are some common vision correction products?

Eyeglasses and contact lenses are common, and there is a broad spectrum of prescriptions, coatings, and lens types available to support various vision correction needs. Different types of magnifiers are also available to support reading and close-up tasks.

Eyeglasses use lenses to bend light and focus it onto the retina more effectively than the natural lenses in your eyes are able to. An optometrist adjusts the eyeglasses to bend the light just enough to account for the incorrect shape of your natural lenses.

Contact lenses are safe if you keep them clean between uses, avoid overuse, regularly replace them, and avoid sleeping in them. Have an eye exam at least once a year to ensure that you’re taking care of your contacts correctly.

Over-the-counter eye drops can help keep your eyes moist, soften the skin around the eyes, treat inflammation and redness, and rinse your eyes. Prescription drops can manage allergies, kill bacteria, numb the eyes, dilate pupils for eye exams, and promote healing.

Consult an eye care professional for guidance, diagnosis, and measurement of prescription products, as well as for recommendations about which over-the-counter products may best support your eyesight problems.

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Edmund Tsui, MD

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Edmund Tsui, MD, is an assistant professor of ophthalmology at the Jules Stein Eye Institute in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

He earned his medical degree from Dartmouth. He completed an ophthalmology residency at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where he was chief resident, followed by a fellowship in uveitis and ocular inflammatory disease at the Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology at the University of California in San Francisco.

Dr. Tsui is committed to advancing the field of ophthalmology. His research focuses on utilizing state-of-the-art ophthalmic imaging technology to improve the diagnosis and monitoring of uveitis. He is a co-investigator in several multicenter clinical trials investigating therapeutics for uveitis. He is the author of over 80 peer-reviewed publications and has given talks at national and international conferences.

Along with his clinical and research responsibilities, Tsui teaches medical students and residents. He is on the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology's professional development and education committee, as well as the advocacy and outreach committee, which seeks to increase funding and awareness of vision research. He also serves on the editorial board of Ophthalmology and the executive committee of the American Uveitis Society.

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Ghazala O'Keefe, MD

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Ghazala O'Keefe, MD, is an assistant professor of ophthalmology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, where she also serves as the section director for uveitis and as a fellowship director. A retina and uveitis specialist, she cares for both pediatric patients and adults with inflammatory and infectious eye diseases. She oversees the largest uveitis section in the Southeast and manages the care of complex patients with physicians from other disciplines. 

She is the lead editor of the EyeWiki uveitis section. She is a member of the executive committee of the American Uveitis Society and was inducted into the International Uveitis Study Group. She has served as the director of the Southeastern Vitreoretinal Seminar since 2019.
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Resources
  1. Eyeglasses: How to Choose Glasses for Vision Correction. American Academy of Ophthalmology. June 14, 2023.
  2. Low Vision Assistive Devices. American Academy of Ophthalmology. September 17, 2024.