When it comes to eye health and maintaining good vision over the span of your lifetime, there are three providers who you're likely to interact with: ophthalmologists, optometrists and opticians.

This past November, a patient asked optometrist Kaitlin Soracco to remove a bulge of skin on her eyelid. Such skin tags can be excised right there in the office using procedures Soracco studied and ...

An optometrist is a nonmedical professional who specializes in diagnosing and treating diseases, injuries, and disorders of the eye and visual system. Optometrists do not attend medical school. After ...

Ophthalmologists are medical doctors who specialize in treating the eyes. Optometrists have less training and specialized education, but now provide most primary eye care in the United States, ...