A comprehensive exam at Complete Family Vision Care isn't just about the eyes. Many different aspects of health and the body can affect the way we see or the health of our eyes and so we feel that the whole body is important.

Prior to coming in for your appointment, the Medical History form gives you an opportunity to provide us with important information about conditions you may have that could affect your vision. From blood disorders to thyroid conditions, a thorough review of your health gives us crucial data and helps us to tailor your eye examination to those conditions that may affect you most.

On the day you come in for your appointment, we'll begin the examination with some screening tests of your color vision, depth perception and side vision. Many ocular diseases can cause subtle changes in these areas and if your doctor determines that a more extensive evaluation is needed, he will have access to those tests as well.

Once seated in the exam room, we will check your acuities (detail vision) and perform an evaluation of the muscles surrounding your eyes, including the alignment and relative strengths to ensure you don't have problems with an eye turn or muscular paresis.

Your doctor will perform a “refraction” to check your prescription and determine if a change in contact lens or glasses prescription is needed. Using special techniques, he can evaluate the focusing abilities of your eyes to decide if a reading or computer prescription is indicated.

If you're wearing contacts, a contact lens evaluation is performed. Click here to see what this includes.

To evaluate the health of the front part of your eyes, your doctor uses a biomicroscope, or “slit lamp.” With this highly magnified view, he can check your eyelids and lashes, evaluate the cornea (clear, front “window” of the eye) for evidence of infection, and evaluate your eye for signs of allergies, trauma or dryness.

If needed, your doctor can put some special dye in your eye which will glow when illuminated with blue light,  highlighting any areas of damaged or irritated tissue. This can be very helpful in the diagnosis of dry eye or certain     forms of eye infections.  More>>