Resources
Patient resources
The practical side: what to bring, how insurance works, what to do in an emergency, and what all those abbreviations on your prescription actually mean.
What to Bring to Your Appointment
Bring your medical insurance card and your vision insurance card, which are usually different, your current glasses, a list of your medications, your sunglasses and, if you wear contact lenses, the boxes.
Read morePatient Forms
New patient, returning patient, child and records release paperwork can be completed before your visit. Ask the office to send the current forms when you book, so the appointment time goes on your eyes.
Read moreInsurance Checklist
Vision plans typically cover routine examinations and eyewear. Medical insurance typically covers disease, injury and monitoring. Which applies depends on why you are being seen, so bring both cards.
Read morePreparing a Child for an Eye Exam
Nothing about a children's eye examination requires reading, speaking or cooperation. It is lights, targets and lenses, nothing touches the eye and nothing hurts. Book when your child is usually alert.
Read moreAfter Your Appointment
New prescriptions take days to a couple of weeks to settle. If yours has not settled after two weeks, come back rather than putting up with it. Certain symptoms mean call the office immediately.
Read moreEye Emergencies: What to Do First
For a chemical splash, irrigate with clean water for at least fifteen minutes before travelling or phoning. For a penetrating injury, do not remove anything. For sudden painless vision loss, seek care immediately.
Read moreUnderstanding Your Prescription
OD is your right eye and OS your left. Sphere is the main correction, cylinder and axis describe astigmatism, and add is the extra reading power. A glasses prescription cannot be used to order contact lenses.
Read moreCaring for Your Eyewear
Rinse first, then clean with a microfibre cloth. Never dry clean a dusty lens, because that grinds the dust into the coating. Frames drift with wear, and adjustments are free for as long as you wear them.
Read moreVision and Driving
Night driving difficulty usually has an addressable cause: early cataract, an outdated prescription, or missing anti reflective coating. Reflected road glare is best handled with polarised lenses rather than a plain tint.
Read moreScreen Use and Your Eyes
Screens do not damage your eyes. What they do is halve your blink rate and hold your focusing system at one distance for hours, and both of those are addressable without buying anything.
Read moreLonger guides
Your First Eye Exam: A Complete Guide
What happens at each stage of a comprehensive examination, what to bring, and what the results mean.
Read moreA Parent's Guide to Children's Vision
From a first exam at six months through school years: what is tested, what to watch for, and what screenings miss.
Read moreThe Myopia Control Guide
Why a child's prescription rises, what the long term risk is, and how the three evidence based treatments compare.
Read moreLiving With Keratoconus
Diagnosis, specialty lens options, cross linking, and the practical day to day questions.
Read moreThe Dry Eye Guide
The two types of dry eye, why artificial tears often fail, and what a treatment plan actually involves.
Read moreThe Ortho-K Guide
How overnight lenses work, who they suit, the fitting process, and what daily life with them is like.
Read moreThe Contact Lens Handbook
Choosing, wearing and caring for contact lenses, including the specialty designs for difficult eyes.
Read moreChoosing Eyewear That Works
Frame fit, lens materials, coatings and the choices that make the difference between glasses you wear and glasses in a drawer.
Read moreBook an appointment
Call (480) 706-3937 or request a time online. The office verifies your insurance before you arrive.