Vision Screening

You only have one pair of eyes for a life time. It is important to gauge the health of your eyes through check ups with an opthamologist. Just as people get a medical check up twice a year, your eyes should not be an exception.

Eye doctors are the best way to check the health of your eyes for possible disease or to check your vision. As people get older, their eyes show the strain of years of reading and computer work. Until the computer came into existence, eyes were not as strained as they are now. The glare of the computer screen is very harmful to the eye and can actually cause damage to our sight.

When you go to an ophthalmologist or an optometrist, they can can check your eyes for any loss of vision. It is so important to be able to compare the health of your eyes against a base line examination. It clearly can show any loss of vision and can easily ascertain the overall health of your eye by the sophisticated equipment that they now have. These machines can test for diseases such as glaucoma or show the overall condition of the blood vessels and arteries coming in and out of your eyes.

These screenings can save your vision because they can predict a pattern of deterioration compared to your last visit. These vision screenings also check your peripheral vision as well as other potential diseases of the eye. The screenings also show whether you are getting close to having cataracts that will require surgery to correct.