Throughout the calendar year, the American Optometric association or AOA raises awareness around diabetes, contact lens safety and smoking and their impact on the public’s eye health and safety. We are a profession that focuses on the functioning of the eye, but our vision is caring for the whole person.

March, though, is optometry’s time. That’s when doctors of optometry celebrate Save Your Vision Month, which traces its founding to 1927 by members of the AOA.