Diagnosing and Managing Your Eye Conditions with Precision
Clear vision is essential to living your best life. To help you on this mission, we diagnose, manage, and treat a wide range of eye conditions that can affect your eyesight, slowing their progression so that you can enjoy life without the limitations these conditions might otherwise impose.
Our patient-first philosophy guides us in providing the best, most personalized care possible for eye conditions such as myopia, dry eyes, and many more.
Eye Conditions We Treat in Tigard
Effective Vision Solutions for Hyperopia
Hyperopia, or farsightedness, makes nearby objects appear blurry while distant objects remain clear. Prescription glasses or contact lenses that adjust the eye's focus can correct this condition. Visit us to explore the best vision correction solution for your needs.
Solutions for Blurred Vision Due to Astigmatism
Astigmatism causes blurred or distorted vision due to an irregularly shaped cornea. Corrective options include prescription glasses or contact lenses designed to compensate for the irregular curvature.
Laser eye surgery, like LASIK, can also provide permanent correction. Request an appointment with us to find the best vision correction solution for your astigmatism.
Managing Myopia: Clear Vision for Nearsightedness
Myopia, also known as nearsightedness, is a vision condition in which close objects are clear, but distant objects appear blurry. It occurs when the eyeball is too long or the cornea has excessive curvature, causing light rays to focus in front of the retina instead of directly on it.
Symptoms of myopia include squinting, headaches, and difficulty recognizing distant faces or road signs. To address myopia, we start with a comprehensive assessment of your eye structure and visual acuity.
Following this, we provide personalized solutions such as prescription glasses, contact lenses, or myopia control therapies to effectively manage and slow down the progression of myopia, particularly in children.
Orthokeratology: Non-Surgical Vision Correction While You Sleep
Ortho-k, or corneal refractive therapy, is a non-surgical treatment that involves wearing specially designed contact lenses overnight to temporarily reshape the cornea, providing clearer vision.
Ortho-k lenses flatten the central cornea, allowing light to be focused more accurately on the retina at the back of the eye. They also create a controlled peripheral defocus, meaning they slightly shift the focus of peripheral light rays in front of the retina.
It is believed that this peripheral defocus sends signals to the eye that trigger a slowing down of the axial elongation (lengthening) of the eye, which is a key factor in myopia progression.
Effective Solutions for Age-Related Presbyopia
Presbyopia is an age-related condition affecting near vision, making tasks like reading difficult. Vision correction options include prescription reading glasses, bifocals, or multifocal contact lenses. Surgical options like LASIK or lens implants can also provide lasting solutions. Visit us to explore the best options for correcting your presbyopia.
Comprehensive Treatments for Managing Dry Eye
Dry eye syndrome occurs when your eyes do not produce enough tears or when the quality of your tears is poor, leading to discomfort, redness, and irritation.
Environmental factors, underlying health issues such as autoimmune disease, and hormonal imbalances in women can trigger low-quality and low-quantity tears.
However, the most significant underlying factor in the development of dry eye is meibomian gland dysfunction, which occurs when the oil glands become blocked, resulting in tears that do not lubricate the eyes.
Dry eye disease may not come with permanent symptoms, but you don't have to endure discomfort. There are many effective treatments for dry eye, so request a dry eye consultation with Tigard Vision Center to get the right treatment solution.