Vision eye exam

A routine vision eye exam is what most people envision when they think about a visit to the optometrist, but a comprehensive eye exam entails a lot more than just determining your lens prescription for glasses and contacts.

Your refraction, the series of tests used to determine your glasses prescription, is the most important part to determine the best vision correction for both healthy and unhealthy eyes. We start the process using the Zeiss iProfiler, a combined auto-refractor, wavefront aberrometer, and topographer and the only device of its kind in all of Southern Oregon. We then carefully refine those numbers to achieve the best prescription possible for each individual patient. Even though it is a very important test, it is a small piece of the comprehensive examination your eye doctor will perform.

During your eye health assessment we will look for many eye diseases and general health problems including cataracts, macular degeneration and glaucoma along with high blood pressure and diabetes. We measure your eye pressure, screen for neurological condition that can impact the visual system, and carefully examine the outer and inner parts of the eye under high magnification. We use state of the art equipment and expertise to expand your routine vision exam to a comprehensive eyecare service.

It may be a "routine" eye exam at the optometrist, but it is actually a very detailed process designed to not only determine a glasses prescription, but to screen for a myriad of vision and possibly life threatening diseases.