Adult Eye Exams
Eye Exams for the Whole Family
Routine eye exams are important, regardless of your age or physical health. During a complete eye exam, your eye doctor will not only determine your prescription for eyeglasses or contact lenses, but will also check your eyes for common eye diseases, assess how your eyes work together as a team and evaluate your eyes as an indicator of your overall health.
Need an Eye Exam to Update Your Prescription?A comprehensive eye exam includes a number of tests and procedures to examine and evaluate the health of your eyes and the quality of your vision. These tests range from simple ones, like having you read an eye chart, to complex tests, such as using digital retinal imaging technology to evaluate retinal health.
Eye care experts recommend you have a complete eye exam every year to assess your risk for potentially damaging eye conditions, as well as to keep on top of any changes in vision you may be experiencing.
Routine eye exams are important, regardless of your age or physical health. During a complete eye exam, your eye doctor will not only determine your prescription for eyeglasses or contact lenses, but will also check your eyes for common eye diseases, assess how your eyes work together as a team and evaluate your eyes as an indicator of your overall health.
Need an Eye Exam to Update Your Prescription?A comprehensive eye exam includes a number of tests and procedures to examine and evaluate the health of your eyes and the quality of your vision. These tests range from simple ones, like having you read an eye chart, to complex tests, such as using digital retinal imaging technology to evaluate retinal health.
Eye care experts recommend you have a complete eye exam every year to assess your risk for potentially damaging eye conditions, as well as to keep on top of any changes in vision you may be experiencing.
Eye Exams for Everyone
How Often Do You Need to See the Optometrist, Based on Age?The AOA recommends an annual eye exam for any patient who wears eyeglasses or contacts. If you don’t normally need vision correction, you still need an eye exam every year. Doctors often recommend more frequent eye examinations for people with diabetes, high blood pressure and other disorders, because many diseases can have an impact on vision and eye health.
Since the risk of eye disease continues to increase with advancing age, everyone over the age of 60 should be examined annually.
If you are over 40, it’s a good idea to have your eyes examined every one to two years to check for common age-related eye problems such as presbyopia, cataracts and macular degeneration.
Since the risk of eye disease continues to increase with advancing age, everyone over the age of 60 should be examined annually.
If you are over 40, it’s a good idea to have your eyes examined every one to two years to check for common age-related eye problems such as presbyopia, cataracts and macular degeneration.
Eye Exams for Children
Some experts estimate that approximately 5% to 10% of pre-schoolers and 25% of school-aged children have vision problems. According to the American Optometric Association (AOA), all children should have their eyes examined at 6 months of age, at age 3 and again at the start of school. Children without vision problems or risk factors for eye or vision problems should then continue to have their eyes examined at every year throughout school.
Children with existing vision problems or risk factors should have their eyes examined more frequently. Common risk factors for vision problems include:
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Children with existing vision problems or risk factors should have their eyes examined more frequently. Common risk factors for vision problems include:
- Premature Birth
- Developmental Delays
- Turned or Crossed Eyes
- Family History of Eye Disease
- History of Eye Injury
- Physical Illness or Disease
- Lazy Eye
- Myopia
- Reading Problems
- Learning Problems
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- Technology - Advanced Eye Care
We use the most up-to-date technology to ensure the best eye care possible. That includes retinal images and OCT to ensure we see the underlying structure of the eye to detect for early blood vessel leakages or tearing of the retina. - What to Expect
Going to the eye doctor? Bring your old glasses and a list of your medications. The adult eye exam may take 40 minutes to 1 hour. If you are dilated, you may find the sun or lights being brighter. Bringing a pair of sunglasses or a driver would help too.
VisionWhen checking for vision for far and near, and trialing with lenses for far and near, a start point for lenses are achieved.
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HealthWhen checking for external eye health and internal eye health, a health update can ensure that there eye diseases can be detected early and managed. Those include glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, dry eyes, inflammation of the eyes and contact lens related red eyes.
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Eye CoordinationWhen checking for binocular vision and eye coordination, a coordinated eye would ensure comfortable vision, easy reading and writing for learning, and working on the computer. An updated prescription from binocular vision findings would help ensure that the two eyes are balanced and and team well together to reduce eye fatigue.
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Vision Health Assessment
A comprehensive eye exam is done with the following procedures, sometimes may be not in the order described.
1. Assess Current Visual State
You are encourage to read out the smaller print at distance and/or near with your correction (glasses/contacts) or naked eyes.
2. Objective and Subjective Refraction
A baseline objective refractive power and subjective refractive power are both measured for both sphere and cylinder power and orientation.
Binocular correction for difference between two eyes, and eyestrains are considered.
The same is repeated for reading power if found necessary.
The end result is the glasses power that can be used for patient's daily needs for clear, consistent and comfortable vision for both far and near.
3. Confrontation Visual Fields
The patient is offered images from peripheral to center to check the limits of their visual fields horizontally and vertically.
4. Extra-ocular Muscles Mobility Assessment
One of the patient's eye is covered at different time to assess the movement and alignment of the two eyes.
This test helps rule out the chance of crossed eyes or other eye muscle defect.
5. Pupillary Assessment
The pupil is assessed under the microscope (slit lamp), for size, shape and responses to light.
6. Tear quality assessment
Tear film quality in liquid or lipid (oil) form are assessment with the Slit Lamp (a microscope).
Tear lake or tear volume is also assessed.
In some cases, tear break up time and other dry eye tests are used to evaluate how the lid and tears interact.
7. Assessment of the Anterior Segment (photo image when required)
The lids, cornea, conjunctiva, anterior chamber, iris, lens are assessed.
This can determine for risks of infections, allergies, inflammation, diabetes in the eye, and clouding of the lenses that may lead to cataract.
8. Tonometry to check for eye pressure
The pressure of the eye is checked with a precise hand-held device.
This would determine one of the risks for glaucoma.
9. Dilated Fundus Examination
The patient has the dilation drop instilled in the eyes. It would take 15-30 minutes to dilate depending on the pigment density of the iris.
After the pupil dilation, the Optometrist can look into a bigger opening through the pupil to assess the optic nerve, macular, blood vessels at the back of the eyes and the peripheral.
This helps determine if there is a risk for ocular stroke, bleeding of the blood vessels, or cyst formation due to diabetes or high blood pressure. It also helps to determine if there is a risk for age-related macular degeneration.
10. Retinal photo
The retinal photo is worth a thousand words. The doctor can describe the height and width of the defect or lesion inside the eye, but never as good as the photo for the shape or form. A retinal photo can capture and document the changes for optic nerve that may signify risk of glaucoma, or the lesions at the macula for macular degeneration, or the micro-hemorrages for blood vessels due to diabetes.
11. OCT
The OCT can help show the ten layers of structure of the retina. The doctor can see under the retina for micro-bleeding or micro-tearing of the retina to ensure you get early treatment for any macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, or retinal tears or holes or detachement. It can gives us more blood vessel and wellness information for the body.
Added features (when required)
1. Anterior segment photo of the eye lids, cornea and iris when required.
2. Personal vision correction using the latest technology in contact lenses, refractive surgery and glasses recommendations.
3. Customized glasses style consult according to your face shape. For the simpler guide, take a look here.
4. Sports eye wear suggestion injuries with tennis or soccer, and game enhancement in fishing and golfing.
5. Sunglasses solution and anti-aging/UV protection.
6. Nutritional and physical activity plan to improve your control on your eye health and overall health.
7. Technology use planning guide.
8. Patient support. (emails on eye health and follow up on eye wear).
1. Assess Current Visual State
You are encourage to read out the smaller print at distance and/or near with your correction (glasses/contacts) or naked eyes.
2. Objective and Subjective Refraction
A baseline objective refractive power and subjective refractive power are both measured for both sphere and cylinder power and orientation.
Binocular correction for difference between two eyes, and eyestrains are considered.
The same is repeated for reading power if found necessary.
The end result is the glasses power that can be used for patient's daily needs for clear, consistent and comfortable vision for both far and near.
3. Confrontation Visual Fields
The patient is offered images from peripheral to center to check the limits of their visual fields horizontally and vertically.
4. Extra-ocular Muscles Mobility Assessment
One of the patient's eye is covered at different time to assess the movement and alignment of the two eyes.
This test helps rule out the chance of crossed eyes or other eye muscle defect.
5. Pupillary Assessment
The pupil is assessed under the microscope (slit lamp), for size, shape and responses to light.
6. Tear quality assessment
Tear film quality in liquid or lipid (oil) form are assessment with the Slit Lamp (a microscope).
Tear lake or tear volume is also assessed.
In some cases, tear break up time and other dry eye tests are used to evaluate how the lid and tears interact.
7. Assessment of the Anterior Segment (photo image when required)
The lids, cornea, conjunctiva, anterior chamber, iris, lens are assessed.
This can determine for risks of infections, allergies, inflammation, diabetes in the eye, and clouding of the lenses that may lead to cataract.
8. Tonometry to check for eye pressure
The pressure of the eye is checked with a precise hand-held device.
This would determine one of the risks for glaucoma.
9. Dilated Fundus Examination
The patient has the dilation drop instilled in the eyes. It would take 15-30 minutes to dilate depending on the pigment density of the iris.
After the pupil dilation, the Optometrist can look into a bigger opening through the pupil to assess the optic nerve, macular, blood vessels at the back of the eyes and the peripheral.
This helps determine if there is a risk for ocular stroke, bleeding of the blood vessels, or cyst formation due to diabetes or high blood pressure. It also helps to determine if there is a risk for age-related macular degeneration.
10. Retinal photo
The retinal photo is worth a thousand words. The doctor can describe the height and width of the defect or lesion inside the eye, but never as good as the photo for the shape or form. A retinal photo can capture and document the changes for optic nerve that may signify risk of glaucoma, or the lesions at the macula for macular degeneration, or the micro-hemorrages for blood vessels due to diabetes.
11. OCT
The OCT can help show the ten layers of structure of the retina. The doctor can see under the retina for micro-bleeding or micro-tearing of the retina to ensure you get early treatment for any macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, or retinal tears or holes or detachement. It can gives us more blood vessel and wellness information for the body.
Added features (when required)
1. Anterior segment photo of the eye lids, cornea and iris when required.
2. Personal vision correction using the latest technology in contact lenses, refractive surgery and glasses recommendations.
3. Customized glasses style consult according to your face shape. For the simpler guide, take a look here.
4. Sports eye wear suggestion injuries with tennis or soccer, and game enhancement in fishing and golfing.
5. Sunglasses solution and anti-aging/UV protection.
6. Nutritional and physical activity plan to improve your control on your eye health and overall health.
7. Technology use planning guide.
8. Patient support. (emails on eye health and follow up on eye wear).
