2013 Will be a year to celebrate for our Fort Collins Optometrist Practice.
As a Fort Collins optometrist I have had the honor of serving the Community since 1985. Over that time we have performed eye exams, fit contact lenses and eyeglasses, and treated eye diseases for thousands of residents in Northern Colorado. We always welcome new patients into our office and provide the personal type of eyecare service your family deserves.
I have developed several special areas of interest and expertise over the years, some unique to the Fort Collins Optometrist community.
We provide all the extra time you need for a comprehensive eye exam. Fort Collins residents are not different from other areas of the country, we all worry about getting the wrong prescription from making mistakes during an eye test. We eliminate that concern completely. We first test your eyes with an eye computer that determines your prescription with no answers required from your side. Your exams only need to look at a small target and hold your head still for about a minute! No questioning which is better one or two-it is all automated during this part of your eye exam. Next we do ask those one or two questions when you sit behind the phoropter, the mask like instrument in the picture above. You are free to request that we slow down or repeat the comparison of lenses at any time during your eye exam. I always want my patients to feel like they are free to ask for whatever they need to feel comfortable with the final prescription we arrive at. If you need more time than we have scheduled you can reschedule for a second or third eye examination absolutley free. All of those one’s and two’s may seem confusing but it is more like tuning in a radio station. We go back and forth repeatedly verifying you are giving consistent responses to the same questions.
Here is a secret eye doctors are loathe to reveal-sometimes the two different views are identical! So don’t feel bad if you really can’t tell the difference. I add a few extras to my eye exams when needed. Most Optometrists and Opthamologists no longer have the skill to utilize retinoscopy, the hand instrument technique that was used in the past. I use it frequently when a patient is having trouble telling the differences during the eye exam. This is also totally independent of verbal responses-and I go a step further. I will utilize readings from the eye computer and retinoscope before and after putting in dilation drops. These drops eliminate most of the variability in focusing that alter eye prescription readings. Even when children or adults are completely non verbal our testing sequence usually yields an eye correction of 20/20. Rest easy, we can provide you with an eye exam you can’t fail!