Our Services

We specialize in complete ocular health

What to Expect from an
Eye Exam

When you come see us for an eye exam, our opthalmic assistant will ask you some questions regarding your health history and medications you take. You will also be asked about family history of medical problems and eye disease. You will then be taken into a room to have some pretesting or measurements of your eyes and measurements of any current eyeglasses that you have.

1

Autorefraction

The pretesting includes an autorefraction which measures the front curvature of your eyes and lets the doctor know approximately how well you focus in the distance.

2

Retinal Scan

You will be asked to have a retinal scan or Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) scan which is a highly sophisticated picture of the back of your eye to help in early detection of eye disease. After this, you will be ready to see the doctor.

3

Visual Acuity

You will be asked to read letters on the chart, one eye at a time with and/or without your glasses on at distance and near.

4

Binocular Vision

A series of tests will check how well your eyes work together.

5

Confrontational Fields

This test checks your peripheral vision and may be followed up with a more sophisticated test called a visual field test where your peripheral vision is checked in more detail if needed.

6

Refraction

This is the part most patients find tough. “Which is clearer 1 or 2?” Don’t worry! This test is tough for everyone, but we will make it much easier now with our new automated vision tester which allows you to compare choices side by side to improve accuracy and directly feeds into the electronic medical record to eliminate error.

7

Applanation Tonometry

An eye drop is inserted before doing this test, allowing the doctor to check the pressure inside the eyes. You will see a blue light and a probe will put a gentle pressure on the front of the eye but you will not feel this. This only takes a few seconds.

8

Ocular Health

This is the part that more directly checks the health of the eyes. Using a slit lamp which is really just a large microscope to view inside the eyes to check for disease. Using a lens combined with the slit lamp, different parts of the eye can be viewed in great detail. The doctor may put a drop in to open up or dilate the pupils to get a better view inside if needed, to check the retina or back of the eye in more detail. The doctor will often use a binocular indirect ophthalmoscope to view the peripheral areas in the back of the eye in more detail after the eyes are dilated.