A comprehensive eye exam includes a visual evaluation as well as an ocular health evaluation. The aspects of the examination that our office provides: complete medical and ocular history, glaucoma screening, visual field screening, visual acuities, biomicroscopy, topography, refraction and slit lamp exam. Our Doctors may also dilate your eyes to check for cataracts, glaucoma, retinal diseases and systemic diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes.  The great news is you can opt for our optomap imaging that gives a retinal exam without the hassle of the dilation.

 

Our Doctors will review all findings of each patient’s vision and eye health, and give a customized recommendation of treatment options based on those findings. Yearly eye exams are important to have to help protect the health and maintain the vision of your eyes.

A contact lens is a medical device and requires special fitting and assessment. Our Doctors will examine your eyes for the best contact lens fit and contact lens material. Contact lens patients need to be examined annually. Our Doctors have experience in working with custom contact lens fitting for toric lenses, bifocal correction, monovision, higher levels of astigmatism, keratoconus or corneal transplant patients, and well as more conventional fittings.

Keratoconus is an uncommon condition in which the cornea, the clear front part of the eye, becomes thinned. The cornea, normally round takes the shape of a cone. This condition requires a specialized fit and contact lens. Our Doctors have expertise in this area due to numerous fits on past keratoconic patients.

Ortho-K is a process which specially designed rigid contact lenses are worn overnight to gradually reshape the cornea. This gives you clear vision throughout the day. The effect of the lenses is temporary, usually lasting about 1 day, so the lenses must be worn each night. Our Doctors are able to fit these types of lenses.

An eye emergency is any red eye, any trauma to eye (abrasions or foreign bodies), sudden onset of eye pain, sudden loss of vision, diplopia (double vision), swollen eyelids (styes), new onset flashes of light/floaters.

 

Our Doctors can handle all of these types of emergent cases and are licensed to prescribe both topical and oral medications to treat eye diseases. Our Doctors are licensed to diagnose and manage all of these types of emergent cases. We are able to refer to a surgeon if needed. If you have an eye emergency after hours, please leave a message on our phone and on of our Technicians or Doctors will get back to you.

Surgical co-management is the care provided by your eye doctor before and after your eye surgery. Our Doctors past co-management experience and exceptional rapport with many eye surgeons specialists in the area. in the area provide for convenient and conscientious eye surgery co-management care.

 

Lasik is a surgical technique that utilizes lasers to reshape the cornea for correcting refractive errors. Our Doctors also can successfully manage your follow-up appointments after Lasik surgery or let you know if you would be a good candidate for the procedure and help with a referral to an expert surgeon.

 

Dry eye is a common problem in Arizona. Our Doctors can help you achieve more comfortable eyes with the use of dry eye drops, plugs for your tear duct, and possibly a prescription. He will assess your eyes and formulate a specific plan for your dry eyes.

 

Macular degeneration and glaucoma are major eye diseases that affect your vision. Our Doctors can manage these complex cases and refer you to a specialist if needed. We are one of the few optometrists in the area with a Optovue OCT. The Optovue helps manage these diseases more closely by taking a scan of the back of the eye. These scans can detect progression of the diseases more quickly. We also recently added a visual field to the practice to help monitor our patients with glaucoma.

 

Macuhealth is formulated to protect and enhance eyesight throughout your life. It is the only supplement with all three macular cartenoids- lutein, meso-zeaxanthin and zeaxanthin. Our Doctors will let you know if this supplement is right for you.

 

Optovue is a state of the art technology that helps the Doctors at CLASIK Vision manage treatment options for patients suffering from ocular diseases. In just a few seconds, our painless and non-invasive OCT imaging scans can give your Doctor a comprehensive view of your ocular health.

 

Getting an optomap image is fast, painless and comfortable. Nothing touches your eye at any time. It is suitable for the whole family. To have the exam, you simply look into the device one eye at a time (like looking through a keyhole) and you will see a comfortable flash of light to let you know the image of your retina has been taken. Under normal circumstances, dilation drops might not be necessary, but your eye care practitioner will decide if your pupils need to be dilated depending on the health of your eyes. The image capture takes less than a half second and they are available immediately for you to see your own retina. You see exactly what your eye care practitioner sees – even in a 3D animation.

 

Our Doctors are some of the first to be certified in fitting Misight 1 day contact lenses for myopia management. These lenses: correct distance vision immediately and can slow myopia progression during the growing years.