| A | B |
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| Medicaid is for | Pregnant women/children under 19/people 65 and over/people who are blind/people who are disabled/people who need nursing home care |
| Medicare is for | People 65 and over/people of any age who have kidney failure or long term kidney disease/people who are permanently disabled and cannot work |
| DenteMax | Network that Avesis leases so that our members can go see dental providers |
| CPT | Current Procedural Terminology |
| ICD | International Classifications of Diseases |
| Dilation | An examination that enables a deeper look into the eye to detect early signs of disease. |
| Optometrist | A doctor of optometry (O.D.), with four years of post graduate doctoral study in measuring vision and eye health. |
| Optician | Manufactures and sells eyeglasses and/or contacts. |
| Endodontics | Concerned with the health of the dental pulp, or soft core, and associated tissues. |
| Orthodontics | Concerned with the correction of dental and facial irregularities through the use of braces and other appliances. |
| Myopia | A condition of the eye where the light that comes in does not directly focus on the retina but in front of it. This causes the image that one sees when looking at a distant object to be out of focus but in focus when looking at a close object. |
| Hyperopia | A defect of vision caused by an imperfection in the eye, often when the eyeball is too short or the lens cannot become round enough, causing difficulty focusing on near objects. |
| Astigmatism | Characterized by an irregular curvature of the cornea, causing light to focus in different parts of the retina. |
| Presbyopia | A condition where the eye exhibits a progressively diminished ability to focus on near objects with age. |
| Ophthalmoscopy | A test that allows a doctor to see inside the back of the eye (called the fundus) and other structures using a magnifying instrument and a light source. |
