Comprehensive eye examination
forty-five minutes (add fifteen minutes for a first visit)
The full examination, with a written prescription at the end of it.
Anybody who has not had one in a year or two, or whose sight has changed.
$145
In the examination lane
Comprehensive eye examination
How well you see, how your eyes work together, and how they are.
The examination has two halves and people usually only expect the first. The sight test works out what lens, if any, makes the world sharp. The health check looks at the front of the eye under magnification and at the back of it, measures the pressure inside, and compares all of it against your own last visit rather than against an average.
What this includes
- What you have noticed, what you do all day, and what medicines you take
- Distance and near vision, each eye separately and both together
- The prescription, refined until two choices look the same rather than until one looks good
- How the eyes move, point and focus as a pair
- The pressure inside each eye
- The front of the eye under the microscope, and the back of it
- A written prescription you may take anywhere
What this is not
- It is not a scan of your whole health, though it sometimes shows the first sign of something else
- It cannot tell you whether a headache is caused by your eyes until it has ruled the eyes out
The appointment
Booking this
Ring or book online. The sight test and the health check happen in the same visit, so there is no separate appointment for either half.
Where this is bounded
What we will and will not tell you here is bounded by this straight answer: An online sight test is not an eye examination.
The examination, booked properly
Ring to book a comprehensive eye examination, or ask what it covers first.