Catherine T. Dinh, OD

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Get to know Optometrist Dr. Catherine T. Dinh, who serves patients in Texas.

A licensed therapeutic optometrist and optometric glaucoma specialist, Dr. Dinh sees patients at Advanced Vision Care in Arlington, Texas and Advanced Eyecare in Grand Prairie, Texas. She has extensive training in contact lens fitting, and the treatment and management of ocular diseases including dry eyes, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy. She is also highly trained on the preoperative and postoperative care of cataract and refractive surgeries such as LASIK and PRK.

Advanced Vision Care and Advanced Eyecare provide comprehensive care for patients’ visual and medical needs using state-of-the-art technology. In addition to testing visual acuity, their eye doctors focus on the comprehensive and long-term health of patients’ eyes and vision. Using the latest in optometric technology such as digital imaging, they inspect the eyes thoroughly with a comprehensive eye and vision assessment.

Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dr. Dinh moved to Arlington, Texas where she graduated from Timberview High School and the University of Texas at Arlington with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, and a minor in Chemistry. She went on to earn her Doctor of Optometry degree from the University of Houston College of Optometry in 2015, where she received an award upon graduation for excellence in vision development and vision therapy.

Among her professional affiliations, she is an active member of the American Optometric Association, the Texas Optometric Association, and the Tarrant County Optometric Society.

Optometry is a health care profession that involves examining the eyes and applicable visual systems for defects or abnormalities, as well as diagnosing and managing eye disease. Optometrists are healthcare professionals who provide primary eye care through comprehensive eye examinations to detect and treat various visual abnormalities and eye diseases. Being a regulated profession, an optometrist’s scope of practice may differ depending on the location. Thus, disorders or diseases detected outside the treatment scope of optometry (i.e. those requiring certain surgical interventions) are referred out to relevant medical professionals for proper care, more commonly to ophthalmologists who are physicians that specialize in the tertiary medical and surgical care of the eye. Optometrists typically work closely together with other eye care professionals, such as ophthalmologists and opticians, to deliver quality and efficient eye care to the general public.

Happily married, Dr. Dinh and her husband have a son. In her free time, she enjoys playing board games and playing the piano/organ for the Vietnamese Martyrs Catholic Church. Fluent in Vietnamese, she can conduct eye examinations in Vietnamese.

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