Eye Medical Treatment Cares

A comprehensive eye exam, also sometimes called a routine eye exam, consists of a series of tests to measure how well you can see and to look for any problems that might be affecting the overall health of your eyes. These can include ophthalmologic conditions, such as cataracts, but also unrelated medical issues that cause symptoms that affect the structures of the eyes, such as diabetes. It can be done by an ophthalmologist or an optometrist, depending on if there are any specific things about your eyes that need to be addressed. How often you should have an eye exam depends on a variety of factors, including your overall risk for specific: 1-problems. 2-Purpose During a comprehensive eye exam an eye doctor will assess 1-Eye muscle movement 2-Visual acuity (how clearly you see) 3-Refractive error (how light waves pass through the cornea and lens of the eye) 4-Visual field (how much you can see on either side of you while not moving your eyes) 5-Color vision