A regular, comprehensive dilation eye exam is important for your eyes’ long-term health and your vision’s quality. It’s more than an eye exam. It can be a health evaluation, too.
We provide an annual comprehensive eye exam for adults and eye exam for children of all ages. A complete eye examination with dilation allows our licensed eye doctors to evaluate a patient’s overall health. Optometrists can detect early indicators of chronic health problems — like diabetes, glaucoma, heart disease and hypertension — by evaluating a patient’s eyes.
Overall, eye dilation provides optometrists with a bigger, better view to examine a patient’s eye. With eye dilation, we can take important steps:
- Check internal structures in the back of the eye, like the retina and optic nerve.
- Measure tiny changes in blood flow in the eye’s blood vessels.
- Look for tears or perforations.
