Medical Services

Besides helping you maintain the best vision possible, eye exams can help detect and treat a number of eye ailments before they turn into something much more serious. They can even alert you to general health conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure. That’s why we strongly encourage you to keep up with a regular schedule of eye exams, especially if your family has a history of eye or other health problems.

Of all the things you can do you for the health of your eyes, nothing is more important than an annual eye exam.

• Reviewing your medical and ocular history, current medications, working environment, hobbies, etc
• Checking visual acuity
• Performing refraction and prescribing glasses
• Slit-lamp examination to examine the health of your eyes. A wide range of eye conditions and diseases can be detected with slit-lamp examination, including cataracts, macular degeneration, corneal ulcers, diabetic retinopathy, etc.
• Measure intraocular pressure of your eyes and screening for glaucoma
• Performing a dilated ocular exam to examine internal structures of the eye and evaluate retina and optic nerve
• In some cases, your eye doctor may want to check for the possible presence of blind spots (scotomas) in your peripheral or “side” vision by performing a visual field test. These types of blind spots can originate from eye diseases such as glaucoma
• In some cases, besides these common tests performed during a standard comprehensive eye exam, your eye doctor may recommend other, more specialized eye tests
• It’s important to understand that a comprehensive eye exam typically does not include a contact lens fitting, and therefore you will not be given a contact lens prescription at the end of a routine eye exam
• There is a possible exception: If you wear contacts currently and the lenses were fitted by the same eye doctor who is performing your comprehensive eye exam, he or she may issue you an updated contact lens prescription at the end of your eye exam.