NOT YOUR AVERAGE EYE EXAM

This is not your average eye exam. Here at Athens Family vision, we provide tailored, medically based full-scope optometric care. Our training and experience, combined with our suite of diagnostic and imaging equipment, enables us to identify, diagnose, and treat a wide-range of ophthalmic conditions to offer comprehensive care that extends beyond the routine. 

 Living with dry eyes can be irritating, but our team has helpful solutions within reach. During your exam we’ll go over your current lifestyle and medical history to determine the cause of your symptoms and provide a custom treatment plan. Our technology, techniques, and expertise can help you find relief.

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Eye exams are especially important as you age. The leading causes of blindness in the United States are age-related eye diseases like glaucoma and macular degeneration.

Regardless of your age, a thorough eye exam can catch the earliest signs of problems, before you may even notice changes in your vision. During your eye exam, we’ll evaluate your vision and your eye structures for any signs of irregularities. This allows us to diagnose disease early and begin treatment as soon as possible.

 IPL Photofacial

Groundbreaking technology that delivers pulses of light to treat dry eyes and restore brighter smother skin tone. It addresses skin discoloration, acne scarring, sun damage, age spots, redness, and broken capillaries. This process of photo rejuvenation aims to reverse aging and provide the skin with a radiant glow with no down-time, perfect for people on the go.

Radiofrequency Rejuvenation 

Innovative technology that delivers thermal heat to treat dry eyes and restore youthful tighter skin. Around the eyes, it addresses undereye bags, dark circles, fine lines, and droopy lids. Around the face, it addresses sagging skin, wrinkles, and volume loss. This process aims to tighten and tone the skin by increasing natural collagen production. The result is tighter plumper skin with a long-lasting lifted and contoured appearance. 

Chemical Peels/Facials 

• Improving skin’s overall complexion
• Stimulating new collagen
• Clearing breakouts
• Smoothing fine lines and wrinkles
• Ridding discoloration from sun damage
• Reducing blemishes
• Addressing uneven skin tone
• Sloughing off dead skin cells
• Controlling pimples and breakouts
• Reducing hyperpigmentation and dark spots
• Improving the overall look and feel of the skin
  

Any sudden change in vision or sudden eye pain should be investigated right away by your optometrist. Types of eye emergencies include:

• Severe or sudden eye pain
• Sudden change in or loss of vision
• Sudden flashes or floaters
• Infections (like pink eye)
• Very red eyes
• Swelling around the eye or eyelid
• Eye injury or trauma
• Foreign substance or object in the eye

 There are many benefits of myopia control. First, with myopia control, some patients won’t require as strong of a lens prescription over time. This means fewer glasses prescription updates and better natural vision.

Myopia control can also help to reduce the risk of myopia-related eye problems. People with severe myopia have an increased risk of retinal detachment, glaucoma, cataracts, and myopic degeneration.

Myopic degeneration is a type of retinal degeneration that affects people with severe myopia. In myopic patients, the inner layer of the eye, the retina, can become very thin and frail, particularly the central portion known as the macula. The macula controls central vision, and damage to this part of the retina can lead to central vision loss.