The Eye Examination Process

At Eyesite, your qualified optometrist will personally carry out every aspect of the test.

History and symptoms
At the start of the examination, your optometrist will discuss your vision and eye health in general.

Your optometrist will also need to know about your general lifestyle and health, including any medication you are taking, whether you have any close relatives with a history of eye problems, your vocation and leisure activities and about any previous spectacles or contact lenses you may have been wearing.

This will help your practitioner to make an accurate assessment of your needs.

Examining the eye
Your eyes will be examined both externally and internally to assess the health of your eyes and identify any other underlying medical problems.

Depending on the examination you are having, your optometrist will use various instruments to examine and record the state of your eye health. Find out more about Eyesite’s different eye examinations.

Your vision
Your vision will be measured both with and without spectacles or lenses to check for any problems with your eyesight. The optometrist will assess your distance vision (for TV and driving), your near vision (for reading and close work) and your vision at other points depending on your own needs.

After the eye examination
Your practitioner will now have a detailed knowledge of the health of your eyes, the standard of your vision and any special requirements that you may have.

If you are having spectacles, there are a number of other measurements which we can only take once you have selected your frames. These are to do with the distance from the spectacle lens to the centre of eye rotation and we can use these measurements to further improve the precision of your spectacle lenses. Your dispensing optician will take these measurements as part of the dispensing process and explain how we can use a process called Eyecode to make your vision as sharp and clear as possible.

This unique, breakthrough Eyecode technology can offer you spectacle lenses that are an astonishing five times more precise than before. As lenses are traditionally manufactured to give optimum vision when looking straight ahead, your vision may not be as sharp when you look sideways or down. Eyecode measures your individual eye rotation centre so that we can digitally manufacture your spectacle lenses to work better for you, giving you precise vision at all times.