Proposed changes to regulations are unneeded.  The argument that there are a variety of patients with varying difficulty falsely gives the impression that optometry lacks training.  Before leaving school, optometrists have completed thousands of hours of training and have also spent thousands of hours seeing patients of varying difficulty. 

Optometrists are educated, trained and certified to perform the procedures outlined in the regulations.

In 12 other states more than 146,000 procedures have been performed by optometrists and these procedures have proven that optometrists perform these procedures safely and successfully. 

Thank you.