A method of accepting eye topography exams, for use by a physician in treating a patients eye, comprising the steps of:acquiring at least three exams of the patients eye wherein each exam is at least a measure of a topography of an anterior surface of a patients corneacomparing each exam with the other exams to produce a comparison result for each exam pair andaccepting the exam pair having the comparison result indicating that the accepted exam pair are most similar to each other relative to the other exam pairs.