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      During a complete eye exam our doctor and staff establish eye health and consider your body health and how it  affects you eyes. In finding your best vision prescription we not only find what makes you see best but we establish a very telling matter concerning the nerve tissue of your central vision. If we find your best vision to be 20/20 it suggests one thing.  20/15 says something else, and 20/70 is even another matter. Both you and your children should have annual eye examinations which may prevent vision loss. In some instances it even saves lives. Further Keeping vision prescriptions up to date makes the world brighter, life easier and work more productive. 

     Below is a list of a few eye diseases and conditions that we look for during a complete eye exam:

• Refractive Error - This is your glasses prescription. There are 3 types of refractive error, myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia(farsightedness), and astigmatism(warping).  Refractive errors may be corrected with glasses, contact lenses, corneal reshaping or refractive surgery.
  
• Amblyopia - is loss of vision because of inadequate neural stimulation because of misaligned eyes or blurry vision. Left untreated the vision loss becomes permanent after about age twelve, and correction becomes difficult after age six. 
  
• Strabismus - is an eye that turns in, out, up or down relative to the other eye.  Untreated, the strabismic eye becomes amblyopic.
  
• Glaucoma is a disease that is one of Family Eye Clinics very few specialties. It is the degeneration of the vision nerves caused by inadequate blood perfusion, and is always treated by reducing eye pressures. There are no symptoms.
  
• Macular degeneration - is a disease that affects the central vision tissue needed for reading, driving, even recognition of your families faces.
• Cataracts are the clouding of the crystalline lenses, a part of our eyes. Our crystalline lenses are about the size of a shirt button, and they lie in the pupil behind the colored part of your eye (iris). We have worked and experienced the work of many cataract surgeons over the years. We know and work with only the best.
  
• We have also discovered, observed and/or treated retinal tumors, brain tumors, ocular hypertension, deadly milignant hypertension, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, vitreous detachments, melanomas, nevi, leukemia, optic nerve atrophy, keratitis keratoconus, pellucid marginal degeneration, corneal ulcers, intraocular bleeding, arterial occlusion, iridocyclitis, venous occlusion, retinal detachments and others to numerous to mention.
  

     During your complete eye exam, you will be dilated to properly assess the internal health of your eyes. We use reversal agents and your eye will be back to normal in about one hour, but if you feel unsafe driving after being dilated, please arrange for a driver.