0:00:13a doctor marks wants anova associate professor at the university of alabama birmingham school about
0:00:19a tree and the united states along with doctor light lou we wrote a paper
0:00:26on the role of the primary care optometrist and diagnosis and management macula generation
0:00:34thomas restore primary entry way into the healthcare and i hear system in the vast
0:00:40majority the countries where a boundary is legal
0:00:44and it's very important
0:00:45with the changing demographics of most western societies
0:00:49and then
0:00:51machiavelli generation be detected early in a timely manner so that appropriate treatment can take
0:00:57place
0:00:58in the paper we discussed the
0:01:02modifiable and on my modifiable risk factors from accuracy generation these are important for every
0:01:08optometrist and now particularly those risk factors that are modifiable such as smoking and
0:01:15a diet
0:01:16and also those that can be changed along with dietary supplementation
0:01:21where we're at currently with them accurately generation the diagnosis is primarily a click away
0:01:28at this time we just don't have
0:01:32specific psycho physical task to work tools that will allow us to separate out may
0:01:36accurately generation from age-related changes and went back in regeneration from drive actually generation
0:01:43because of that it's very important that optometrist dilate routinely and be familiar with the
0:01:49techniques that are available were clinical diagnosis of accurately generation
0:01:54these are the things that are gonna be very important for us in the future
0:01:57in going forward