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Office Services

Comprehensive Eye Exams for the entire family
Contact Lens Care & Training
Treatment of Eye Infections & Red Eye Problems
Emergency Eye Care Treatments (foreign body, trauma or eye pain)
Diabetic
Cataract Evaluations and Co-Management
Glaucoma
Infant Eye Exams (InfantSEE Program)

Comprehensive Eye Exams

A comprehensive eye exam will evaluate how well you see and identify any potential eye diseases. Often patients with certain eye diseases don't experience any visual symptoms before vision loss occurs.

Your exam may include a:

Visual acuity and refraction test to determine the degree to which you may be nearsighted, farsighted or have astigmatism.
Color vision screening to see if you perceive colors properly.
Muscle function test to check the movement of your eyes in all directions. This test will identify any muscle weakness or involuntary eye movement.
Binocular vision assessment to ensure that your eyes work together properly as a team. This is important for proper depth perception, eye muscle coordination and the ability to change focus from near to far objects.
Eye pressure test. Your doctor may administer one or more tests to evaluate your intra-ocular pressure. High intra-ocular pressure may be a sign of glaucoma.
Eye health assessment. Your doctor will use special instruments to evaluate the health of structures of the eye including cornea, lens, optic nerve and retina.
Visual field test to measure your peripheral vision, the area to the sides when when you're looking straight ahead.
Appropriate treatment options, if necessary, will be presented at the conclusion of your examination.

Contact Lenses

Contact Lens Fitting

Whether you are considering contact lenses to be free of glasses, for sports and recreation, or just for looks you've made the right choice by contacting Estrella Eye Care. We take pride in providing our patients with the most advanced contact lens analysis and lens designs to ensure a lifetime of healthy vision and comfortable lens wear.

Once a comprehensive eye examination has been completed your doctor will evaluate your candidacy for contact lens wear. You will be matched with a trial pair of contact lenses appropriate for your eyes. For current contact lens wearers, we can provide trial contact lenses the same day. For more complex prescriptions and specialty lenses it may be necessary to order trial contact lenses. All new contact lens patients are seen for a minimum of 2 or more office visits following the initial evaluation. A careful corneal health check is performed at each follow-up visit, and then once annually after successful lens wear has been established.

Contact Lens Training

For patients purchasing contact lenses of the first time training is required. The patient will learn how to wear contact lenses with the trial contact lenses. The patient will also teach the patient how to proper care, clean, and disinfect their contact lenses.

Treatment of Eye Infections & Red Eye Problems

Our doctors are experienced to diagnosis and treat eye infections and red eye conditions.

Emergency Eye Care Treatments (foreign body, trauma or eye pain)

For any type of foreign body, trauma or severe eye pain, you should seek immediate assistance from your hospital, general practictioner, or optometrist. Estrella Eye Care takes walk-in patients for any foreign body or trauma to the eye. The doctor will remove the foreign body or treat the eye trauma to restore vision and minimize damage to the eye.

Diabetic Management

If you have diabetes, you probably know that your body can't use or store sugar properly. When your blood sugar gets too high, your vision can fluctuate and damage the blood vessels in your eyes. This damage may lead to diabetic retinopathy. In fact, the longer someone has diabetes, the more likely he is to have retinopathy.

In later stages, the disease may lead to new blood vessel growth over the retina. The new blood vessels can cause scar tissue to develop, which can pull the retina away from the back of the eye. This is known as retinal detachment, and it can lead to blindness if untreated. In addition, abnormal blood vessels can grow on the iris, which can lead to glaucoma. People with diabetes are 25 times more likely to lose vision than those who are not diabetic, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

Diabetic Retinopathy Symptoms and Signs

Floaters can be a sign of diabetic retinopathy. Sometimes difficulty reading or doing close work can indicate that fluid is collecting in the macula, the most light-sensitive part of the retina. This fluid build-up is called macular edema. Another sign is double vision, which occurs when the nerves controlling the eye muscles are affected. If you experience any of these signs, see your eye doctor immediately. Otherwise, diabetics should see their eye doctor at least once a year for a dilated eye exam.

You can significantly reduce your risk of developing diabetic retinopathy by:

Keep your blood sugar under good control.
Monitor your blood pressure and keep it under good control, or seek appropriate care.
Maintain a healthy diet.
Exercise regularly.
Follow your doctor's instructions to the letter.

Diabetic Retinopathy Treatment

The possibility of early detection is why it is so important for diabetics to have a dilated eye exam at least once a year. Diabetic retinopathy can be treated with laser therapy to seal off leaking blood vessels and destroy new growth. Laser therapy doesn't cause pain, because the retina does not contain nerve endings.

Cataract

Cataract Evaluations and Co-Management

A cataract is a clouding of the eye's natural lens, which lies behind the iris and the pupil. The lens works much like a camera lens, focusing light onto the retina in the back of the eye. The lens also adjusts the eye's focus, letting us see things clearly both up close and far away.

The lens is mostly made of water and protein. The protein is arranged in a precise way that keeps the lens clear and lets light pass through it. But as we age, some of the protein may clump together and start to cloud a small area of the lens. This is a cataract, and over time, it may grow larger and cloud more of the lens, making it harder to see.

Cataract Symptoms and Signs

A cataract starts out small, and at first has little effect on your vision. You may notice that your vision is blurred a little, like looking through a cloudy piece of glass or viewing an impressionist painting. A cataract may make light from the sun or a lamp seem too bright or glaring. Or you may notice when you drive at night that the oncoming headlights cause more glare than before. Colors may not appear as bright as they once did.

Cataract Treatment

When symptoms begin to appear, you may be able to improve your vision for a while using new glasses, strong bifocals, magnification, appropriate lighting or other visual aids.

When your cataracts have progressed enough to seriously impair your vision and affect your daily life you may think about cataract surgery. Cataract surgery is a simple, relatively painless procedure to regain vision. Cataract surgery is very successful in restoring vision. During surgery, the surgeon will remove your clouded lens, and in most cases replace it with a clear, plastic intraocular lens (IOL). New IOLs are being developed all the time to make the surgery less complicated for surgeons and the lenses more helpful to patients. Back to Top

Glaucoma

Glaucoma Management

Your eye has pressure just like your blood, and when this intraocular pressure (IOP) increases to dangerous levels, it damages the optic nerve. This can result in decreased peripheral vision and, eventually, blindness.

The best way to prevent vision loss from glaucoma is early diagnosis and treatment. See your eyecare practitioner every year for a complete examination, including an IOP check. People at high risk for glaucoma due to high intraocular pressures, family history, ethnic background, age or optic nerve appearance may need more frequent visits to the eye doctor.

A test called a visual field may be performed on glaucoma suspects to detect peripheral vision loss. It involves staring straight ahead into a machine and clicking a button when you notice a blinking light in your peripheral vision. The visual field test may be repeated at regular intervals for your doctor to determine the extent of vision loss.

Generally the first stage of glaucoma treatment is eyedrops, which will lower fluid production in the eye. Many of the drugs used for glaucoma interact with common medications. Patients should discuss these issues with both the family physician and the eyecare practitioner.

Infant Eye Exams (InfantSEE Program)

The InfantSEE® eye exam offers early detection of potential eye and vision problems as a complement to the eye screening conducted in a pediatric well-care visit. A comprehensive exam between the ages of 6 months and 12 months is recommended to determine healthy development of vision. Risk factors for many eye conditions, including amblyopia (often referred to as lazy eye), muscle imbalances, and some ocular diseases, have no signs or symptoms and may not be detected in a well-baby check-up. Significant risk factors for eye and vision disorders are not detectable by base-level infant eye screening by a pediatrician.

The American Optometric Association (AOA) and The Vision Care Institute of Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc., have partnered to create InfantSEE®, a no-cost public health program developed to provide professional eye care for infants nationwide. Through InfantSEE®, our optometrists will provide a one-time, comprehensive eye assessment to infants in their first year of life, offering early detection of potential eye and vision problems at no cost regardless of income.