Eye Care Services

      

Before coming to the office, you should download the ‘PreExamination Forms’ on the home page and fill these out. This will ask you questions about personal and family eye and medical issues as well as current contact lens and eye information. It will also require you to enter information about contact, emergency, and insurance information. These forms must be completed and signed by the individual or a responsible adult.

    

All children under the age of 18 must be accompanied to the office by an adult who is responsible for their care. Some procedures or tests may require consent of that adult and issues and outcomes of the examination will be discussed with them.

    

Bring your insurance cards with you to the examination as they will be scanned into your record. If you have questions concerning coverage of routine care or medical care and your insurance, please contact the insurance company or your benefits counselor. Our staff may be able to answer many of your questions, but you should call in advance of your examination in case we need to obtain authorizations.

    

We provide a dilated retinal examination as part of your annual exam. This may blur your near vision for about one and half hours and you will be sensitive to bright light for 3 or 4 hours. Please bring sunglasses with you to the visit. We will supply you with disposable sunglasses to wear home if you do not have sunglasses. If you do not feel comfortable driving after the dilation, please bring along someone to drive you home or schedule the dilated portion of the exam for another time.

If your examination reveals ocular disease, we will help you manage or cure that disease. Very common disorders such as conjunctivitis (“pink eye”), corneal abrasions, “styes”, infected or inflamed lid cysts are treated immediately on your visit. Other more chronic diseases, such as glaucoma, cataracts, diabetic retinopathy, and macular degeneration will be evaluated at your examination. In many cases these will require other specialized testing. This may occur on the same day as your visit or on another day. If management is required, we will discuss options for treatment and begin therapy based on our discussion of those options. If you require surgical intervention, we have many colleagues who are experts in these areas. Our staff will assist you by either booking those appointments or giving you the information to schedule one yourself (at your preference).  

 

For more information on some of these conditions, read more below:

      

Glaucoma: http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/glaucoma.htm

Macular Degeneration: http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/amd.htm

Cataracts: http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/cataracts.htm

Diabetes and the Eye: http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/diabetic.htm

 

The American Diabetes Association: http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/

Other Diseases and Disorders: http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/

 If you have had a CHEMICAL SPLASH in the eye, rinse the eye out with sterile irrigating solution, saline, contact lens rinsing or multipurpose solution, or tap water if none of the others are available. Do this for 20 minutes and then call the office immediately.

  

    

We would recommend that you immediately call the emergency room at Yale-New Haven Hospital (203-688-4242) to tell them you are on the way (20 York Street, New Haven, CT 06510).

Do not attempt to remove penetrating objects. If you have ruptured the globe (eye), do NOT apply pressure, but cover the orbit without touching the eye. Do not attempt to rinse the eye.

If you are unsure, call the office (203) 248-3937: the answering service will contact the On-Call Doctor who will respond to your situation.

For more information on eye injuries and prevention at home or at work, see the AOA website:

Refractive technologies are constantly being refined or created. Currently, the most common refractive procedure is LASIK. PRK and phakic intraocular lenses are common alternative therapies.  

At Hamden and Wallingford Eye Associates we provide comprehensive pre-operative and post-operative care for these procedures. Initially, we examine your eyes and take readings to determine your eligibility for these procedures. Many individual factors such as magnitude of corrective prescription, stability of your correction, your body’s scarring potential, age, hormonal changes, pregnancy, dry eye, medications, and corneal thickness can affect your likelihood of success.

We then refer you to a trusted surgeon for additional operative measurements and procedure itself.  

After the surgery we will monitor your progress and alter your medications or therapy. In some cases, enhancements or other interventions may be required. Your post-operative care requires a minimum visit schedule of one day, one week, one month, and a six month progress assessment.

A description and discussion of refractive procedures can be found at AllAboutVision: http://www.allaboutvision.com/visionsurgery/

Also see : TLC website: http://www.tlcvision.com/centers/connecticut/