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Comprehensive eye exams are thorough screenings consisting of various tests and examinations to assess your eyesight and detect potential eye conditions. Attending regular eye exams is crucial to protecting your eye health and ensuring you’re seeing as clearly as possible.
The dedicated team at Community Eye Care Specialists offers in-depth evaluations using state-of-the-art technology to deliver exceptional care and provide early detection and treatment.
At your comprehensive eye exam with Community Eye Care Specialists, your eye doctor will begin by asking questions about your medical history, lifestyle, and any symptoms you may be experiencing. Then, they will conduct a series of tests to assess your eye health and visual clarity, which may include:
Your eye doctor at Community Eye Care Specialists will consider a variety of factors to determine how frequently you should attend comprehensive eye exams. Patients with one or more risk factors of developing eye conditions will likely need to undergo eye exams more often.
If you have a family history of eye conditions, have medical conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, and autoimmune conditions, or wear glasses or contacts, you should attend more frequent eye exams. Age is also an essential factor when determining how often you should undergo eye exams.
As you get older, you become more susceptible to eye conditions like cataracts, glaucoma, and age-related macular degeneration. Scheduling regular eye exams can help protect your eye health and preserve your vision for years to come.
The tests performed during comprehensive eye exams allow for early detection of eye conditions. This is especially important with degenerative conditions like glaucoma, as once vision loss has occurred, it cannot be restored.
Your eye doctor may screen for a variety of other conditions, including:
By regularly undergoing thorough screenings, you can have a better chance of early detection and treatment to preserve as much of your vision as possible. For conditions that do not cause vision loss, attending eye exams can still help you access treatments to get you the relief you’ve been looking for and improve the health of your eyes.
Nearsightedness is a refractive error that causes difficulty focusing on distant objects. This happens when incoming light focuses on the front of the retina rather than the center.
It can be caused by an eye that is too long or a misshapen cornea. Glasses and contacts can correct nearsightedness by adjusting the light to focus directly on the retina, giving you clearer vision.
Patients with farsightedness experience blurry vision at near distances. It can be caused by an eye that is too short or a cornea that is too flat.
With farsightedness, light focuses on the back of the retina, blurring up-close vision. It can be corrected with visual aids like glasses and contacts so that the light hits the retina at the optimal spot for clear vision.
Astigmatism is a refractive error that often occurs along with nearsightedness or farsightedness, where the cornea is football-shaped instead of spherical. As a result, light focuses at multiple points on the retina, blurring and distorting your vision.
Glasses and contacts can help correct astigmatism to enhance visual clarity.
During your comprehensive eye exam at Community Eye Care Specialists, your eye doctor will perform refraction testing to ensure your prescription is up-to-date. If you have nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism, they can fit you with glasses or contacts and recommend different lenses to suit your needs.
Community Eye Care Specialists carry a wide array of frames, lenses, and contacts. No matter your preferences, eye conditions, or vision needs, our expert team of eye doctors is committed to helping you find the perfect visual aids to fit your lifestyle.
