WHY OUR EYE EXAM IS THE BEST.....

At Attentive Eye Care Optometry, we have doctors who are specially trained, well-qualified, and experienced to provide care to patients as young as 6 months old to those who have picked up 60, 70, or even more birthday candles! Some of our doctors have served as instructors and professors at the local Optometry school where future doctors get their training.

 Why our patients feel that they receive the BEST eye exam possible?

At our office, we provide one of the most comprehensive and thorough eye exam and below is a sampling of what we do: 

• Evaluate if you have any eye turn (strabismus) (the doctors in our office have successfully detected, diagnosed, and treated many patients who were either born with an eye turn or developed it due to an injury and/or trauma)

• Evaluate if you have a lazy eye (amblyopia) (the doctors in our office have successfully detected, diagnosed, and treated many patients who have a lazy eye via patching of the better eye and performing a vision therapy training program to further stimulate, develop, and strengthen the lazy eye)

• Evaluate to see how well your eyes work together (patients, in particular children, who have eyes that do not work well toghether tend to have problems when reading and thus affecting their reading comprehension and ultimately will affect their school performance; signs of reading difficulties are complaints of headaches when reading, eye rubbing when reading or playing games, gets tired and/or feeling sleepy easily when reading, losing their place when reading, using their finger to guide them when reading, repeating of words and/or re-reading sentences multiple times, etc.)

• Evaluate your color vision (you can be born with color blindness or you can develop the condition due to an eye disease and thus, it's seen in both gender; color vision is important as it can affect your career choices as certain profession requires the ability to see color; such profession includes artist, painter, firemen, police women, military, pilots, etc.). The doctors in our office have detected and diagnosed many patients who are color blind and have successfully guided them to live a full and productive life.

• Evaluate your depth perception (your ability to see 3D). Can you see the star in the image on the right below?

•  Evaluate your peripheral (side) vision

• Evaluate your natural vision and determine if you have a prescription (a need for glasses and/or contacts). We have the technology that will measure your prescription with the utmost accuracy and for most patients, it allow us to determine the patient's prescription without having to go through the dreaded procedure where you have to decide which is better, 1 or 2? This technology also allow us to provide you with HIGH DEFINITION glasses so that you can see your entire world with high definition clarity (not just your television). Not everyone is a good candidate for the HIGH DEFINITION glasses. Come in and see if you are one of the lucky individuals who are good candidates for this wonderful technology.

Did you know that some infants are born with an unusually high amount of prescription (myopia, hyperopia, and/or astigmatism) and if left untreated, these conditions may lead to an eye turn and/or a lazy eye. The most disheartening thing is that these conditions can easily be detected and managed in such a way that the eye turn and/or lazy eye may not develop and all it takes is to bring your children in for their first eye exam at 6 months old (sooner if you notice problems with their eyes). Very few eye doctors go through an additional year of training to specifically learn how to appropriately examine the infant population so make sure you take your children to one that is a Pediatric trained doctor. Click here for more information on our Infants & Kids Exam

Imagine a 9 months old child who gets his first pair of glasses and as the mother picks him up, he reaches up and touches her face for the first time and that is when she realizes that her child for the first time is able to see who his mother is and is now able to associate a face with the nurturing voice that he has been listening to all this time.

Do you know which conditions you have?

1. Myopia (near-sighted) which means you see better up close
   
2. Hyperopia (far-sighted) which means you see better far away
   
3. Astigmatism (front part of eye is more oblong or pointy thus causing vision far away and up close to be distorted; things don't appear distinct but squinting will make things appear clearer and thus these patients tend to squint their eyes often; they also tend to confuse letters because for them, straight lines will appear more curvy and thus a "C" sometimes look like an "O," an "E" looks like a "B," an "F" looks like a "P," etc.
4. Presbyopia (condition that occurs when your ability to focus and see up close to read diminishes as you get older and thus you will begin to need reading glasses; this condition tends to occur around the 40th birthday.    

• Evaluate the health of the front in addition to the inside of your eyes (we have a digital retinal camera so we can take pictures of the inside of your eyes without having to use the dilating drops that affect your vision and we will review the photographs with you so YOU CAN SEE FOR YOURSELF just how healthy your eyes are)

• Measure the pressure of your eyes (we use a non-airpuff technology that is very accurate). This is a test for glaucoma.

• Evaluate and treat dry eyes, allergies (itchy eyes), infection, inflammation, eyestrain, headaches associated with computer use, near work, and/or reading, etc.

• Evaluate to determine if you are a good candidate for contact lenses and/or LASIK (refractive eye surgery)

Summary

As you can see, there's much more that goes on in an eye exam other than just determining if you need glasses or not. There's a misconception that just because you see well or that you have had LASIK or other eye surgeries done that you don't need to have your eyes examined. This misconception can be a very dangerous one as there are eye conditions such as ARMD, glaucoma, retinopathies, etc. which can lead to the loss of vision if not detected, managed, and/or treated early enough.

If you have any questions or if you would like to make an appointment for an eye exam, please don't hesitate to contact our office. Call NOW for an appointment!