The Midweek Sun

WHAT YOUR TONGUES SAYS Boago Modiisane: ABOUT YOUR HEALTH

The tongue can offer hints about the health of your mouth as well as your overall body. Changes in color, sores or bumps if they don’t resolve in a couple of weeks could be indicators of an illness or disease, possibly even serious issues such as cancer.

- TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOURSELF My name is Boago Modiitsane, I come from Mahalapye and did my primary school and secondary school at St Patrick’s Primary School and Madiba Secondary School respective­ly. I am married and have three girls. I currently r

visual system and in the prevention of eye disease and injury. The ophthalmol­ogist is the medically trained specialist who can deliver total eye care: primary, secondary, and tertiary care services (i.e. vision services, contact lenses, eye examinatio­ns, medical eye care, and surgical eye care), diagnose general disease of the body and treat ocular manifestat­ions of systemic diseases.

Optometris­t is a primary healthcare profession­al of the eye and visual systems who provide comprehens­ive eye and vision care, which includes refraction and dispensing, diagnosis and management of diseases of the eye and the rehabilita­tion of conditions of the visual systems. Primary care optometry is complete eye and vision care that highlights the importance of optometry in prevention, health education, health promotion, health maintenanc­e, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilita­tion, counseling, and interdisci­plinary consultati­on.

Opticians are primary health care profession­als who provide vision care through refraction and dispensing of optical aids such as spectacles.

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