Comprehensive Eye Exams Hartford, CT | Solinsky Eye Care in Hartford

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Checks your color vision to rule out color blindess
Can detect hereditary color vision deficiencies
Alert your eye doctor to possible eye health problems that may affect your color vision

Checks eye alignment
Your eye doctor will have you focus on a small object across the room and then he or she will cover each of your eyes alternately while you stare at the target
Can detect strabismus or a more subtle binocular vision problem that can could eye strain

Determines your exact eyeglass prescription
Your doctor will put an instrument called a phoropter in front of your eyes and shows you a series of lens choices, then asks which of the two lenses in each choice looks clearer
The refraction determines your level of hyperopia (farsightedness), myopia (nearsightedness), astigmatism and presbyopia

Your eye doctor also may use an autorefractor or aberrometer to automatically determine your prescription
An autorefractor, like a manual refraction, determines the lens power required to accurately focus light on your retina
Useful in certain cases such as evaluating young children who may not sit still, pay attention or interact with the eye doctor adequately for an accurate manual refraction

The slit lamp is an instrument that the eye doctor uses to examine the health of your eyes
Your doctor will place your chin on the chin rest of the slit lamp and will look through a set of oculars to examine each part of your eye
Allows your eye doctor to get a highly magnified view of the structures of your eye to thoroughly evaluate your eye health and detect any signs of infection or disease

Glaucoma tests have several variations, all designed to measure the pressure inside your eyes
In one type of Glaucoma test, your eye doctor will put yellow eye drops in your eye to numb it then have you stare straight ahead into the slit lamp to measure your pressure
Routine eye exams that include tonometry are essential to rule out early signs of glaucoma and protect your eyesight
To obtain a better view of the eye’s internal structures, your eye doctor instills dilating drops to enlarge your pupils
Once the drops have taken effect, your eye doctor will use various instruments to look inside your eyes
Pupil dilation is very important for people with risk factors for eye disease, because it allows for the most thorough evaluation of the health of the inside of your eyes

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