Although the development of optometry has been ongoing for nearly a century, the demand of primary eye care remains hardly met due the ever increasing task of human eye for our daily work and activities. Excellent training and capacity of optometrists, application of novel technologies for eye exam, and proper legislation of practice scope for optometrists will help to elevate the standard for primary eye care. In North America and some other areas, the use of diagnosis eye drops is allowed for optometry practice. Still, in some other areas, it is not allowed in primary eye care practice. Under current situation, this restriction will not protect either the optometrists or the patients. Instead, optometry practice will be handicapped. It poses a risk of losing eye health of patients and the optometrists might carry a judge of "poor examination performance", especially for the patients who approach a clinical examination for the first time. In this article, we illustrated the use of new technologies as a temporary solution. Some clinical cases are used as examples and results after referring to ophthalmologists are shown. The importance of using diagnosis eye drops is concluded and it should be aimed as a long term solution for better primary eye care practice.
