Eye Care Services
Annual Eye Health Check Exam
A series of tests designed to evaluate your vision and check for eye diseases. We may use multiple types of instruments, aim bright lights directly at your eyes and request that you look through a seemingly endless array of lenses. Each test during an eye exam evaluates a different aspect of your vision. While performing the exam, our goal is to educate you (the patient) as much as possible.
Contact Lens Fitting
If your eyes are eligible, a tiny, thin correctional lens is fit directly over the cornea of the eye: It will then float on a film of tears as a resting place. Common types of lenses include, RGP (rigid gas permeable), daily wear soft lenses, extended wear soft lenses and planned replacement soft lenses.
Keratoconus Fits
Keratoconus is a degenerative disorder of the eye in which structural changes within the cornea cause it to thin and change to a more conical shape than its normal gradual curve. Most keratoconus individuals can be fitted with custom fitted GP contact lenses.
Lasik Pre and Post Ops
LASIK involves creating a flap in the cornea, folding it back for the surgeon to remove corneal tissue beneath it. Once removed, the flap is then laid back and place and the procedure is complete, all with laser technology.
Although, we don’t perform the LASIK procedures, Brilliant Eyes Vision Center is there before and after your Lasik eye exams. We recommend surgeons and facilities and are there for ALL of your pre and post op checks evaluating progress of your eyes.
Diabetic Exams
In conjunction with a standard eye exam, eyes are checked for symptoms of diabetes. Specifically, tests are performed to check changes in the retina. Damage such as leaks in the blood vessels, can cause distortions and blurred images. This can be directly correlated to diabetes.
Glaucoma Evaluation and Treatment
Glaucoma is a disease in which the optic nerve is damaged, leading to progressive, irreversible loss of vision. Often, but not always, associated with increased pressure of the fluid in the eye. A Glaucoma evaluation consists of checking elevations in fluid pressure in the eye, checking corneal thickness as well as nerve fiber layer loss.
Dry Eye Evaluation and Treatment
Opposite of its name, “dry eye” is characterized by excessive watering or tearing of the eye. By definition, dry eye syndrome is an eye disease caused by decreased tear production or increased tear film evaporation. Because of the irritation caused by a lack of “lubricating” tears in the eye, dry eye will cause an excessive amount of “reflex” tears that occur as a natural reflex of irritation. This reflex in turn causes the excessive watering. By using a microscope the doctor will evaluate the rate of tear production in your eye and checking how long it takes for tears to evaporate between blinks.
Foreign Body Removal
The removal of an object in the eye that is not normally present (such as a metal shaving).
Red Eye Diagnosis and Treatment
Caused by dilated blood vessels in the eye, red eye (also known as conjunctivitis), is characterized by irritated eyes, eye discharge and a reddish color. Tests usually include a thorough inspection of the eye lid as well as reactivity to light. Drops are prescribed to treat the eye if necessary.