Adults who are not experiencing symptoms like blurry vision, difficulty seeing at a distance, eye fatigue, or difficulty maintaining eye alignment may not seek eye exams until after age 40.

“now uh there's a lot of overlap and um in both scenarios uh you can be getting your sort of General exam taken care of maybe a screening exam I think that there's been a traditional differentiation between optometrist and opthalmologists with optometrist providing a little more of the primary care eye screening maybe managing early disease common diseases as well”