Eye Care Articles

After an eye exam, your optometrists would write down your prescriptions in numbers and abbreviations. Sometimes you wonder, what does each of them mean? Here’s a short guide to understand them!

Generally, cornea is the outermost transparent and protective dome shaped surface of our eyes. Thanks to its transparent nature, we are able to see this wonderful world. Corneal topographer is the instrument which helps to take a full detailed mapping of the corneal curvature and it is done in a painless and non-invasive way. It plays an essential role in planning intraocular lens implantation in cataract surgery, planning laser vision correction (LASIK), and contact lens fitting especially in orthokeratology (ortho-k) contact lens.

Eyes are windows to our body. About 80% of what we perceive is related to our sense of light, and we can literally reduce the odds of blindness or vision loss through routine eye checkup.

The famous Italian architect, mathematician and inventor Leonardo da Vinci produced the first known sketches that suggested the optics of the human eye could be altered by placing the cornea directly in contact with water.

Did you realize our health condition can be told by observing the eyes?

In optical world, PD is known as Pupillary Distance. A distance measured in millimetres between the center of each pupil. All eyeglass wearers should know this is one of the necessary information when making prescription glasses.