Comprehensive Eye Examinations
Just as an annual physical is important to maintaining your overall well being, a yearly eye exam is essential to ensuring your eyes are healthy and your vision is the best it can be. Dr. Mirkin wants to help you see as clearly as possible now and and to look for signs of eye disease that may affect your vision in the future.
Diabetes and high blood pressure may cause bleeding in the retina as shown below. Only a careful eye examination can pick up these early signs of problems so that you can make changes to ensure your future health.
Many eye diseases, like glaucoma, have no noticeable symptoms until they have progressed to a point where vision loss can occur.
If you do have signs of glaucoma or other eye disease, Dr. Mirkin can detect and treat it before it causes significant vision loss. For these reasons, Dr. Mirkin recommends eye examinations at the following intervals:
Patient Age Examination Interval
Birth to 6 months. Referred by Pediatrician or if an eye turn, white pupil, unusual tearing, redness or blinking is noted.
6 months to 3 years. At lease once within this critical period of growth. 4-18 years. Yearly before the start of the school year. 80% to 90% of learning comes through vision and children usually do not know they are not seeing comfortably and clearly. Often children are labeled with attention deficit or behavior problems when all they need is the right pair of glasses.
18-60 years. Yearly or as directed by your eye doctor. Usually near vision problems known as presbyopia begin in the early 40's. These near problems become more pronounced toward age 50. Clear comfortable vision allows for greater ability to perform at work and on a computer.
61 and older Annually. Cataract, glaucoma and macular degeneration become more prevalent in the later years. Seniors who drive need to make sure that their vision is adequate.
Contact lens wearers and Post-LASIK patients. Annually. Contact lens wearers are at increased risk for allergy and eye infections while post-LASIK patients can still develop eye disease.