Affordable Comprehensive Eye Exams
Routine eye exams are an important part of preventative health care. Even with perfect vision, an annual eye exam is a simple, cost-effective way to protect your vision and health.
Eye Boutique Eye Exams
Eye Exam Cost
We offer comprehensive eye exams starting at $85* . Your eye exam may be covered by insurance. Be sure to ask us about your plan prior to or during your visit.
Who Should Get Checked and When?
Eye exams are important for everyone, from children to adults and seniors. Even if you have no symptoms, regular eye exams help maintain healthy vision and detect problems early.
What Happens During Your Eye Exam?
Pre-testing
Before your exam, our opticians may perform quick, non-invasive screenings, like autorefraction, eye pressure checks or visual fields tests.
Autorefraction
An autorefractor measures how light changes as it enters your eyes to quickly estimate your vision prescription.
Tonometry
An autorefractor measures how light changes as it enters your eyes to quickly estimate your vision prescription.
Visual Field Tests
During a visual field test, you’ll look straight ahead while small lights flash in your side vision to check how well you can see in your peripheral view.
Retinal Imaging
During retinal imaging, a special camera takes detailed pictures of the back of your eye without dilation. The process is quick, comfortable, and provides immediate results.
Eye Exams
Your overall health, previous visits, and current symptoms will determine the specific tests included in your next eye exam. In general, a comprehensive adult eye exam may include:
Eye Movement Tests
Assess how well your eyes change focus and move in unison to evaluate focus or binocular vision.
Eye Health
Your doctor uses eye charts and specialized tests to check visual sharpness, depth perception, color vision, side vision, eye muscle movement, and light sensitivity.
Refraction
Your doctor tests how lenses focus light while you choose which option looks clearer, helping refine the prescription for nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism.
Keratometry
A circle of light is focused on the cornea (the clear outer part of your eye) and its reflection is measured. This lets your optometrist measure the outer contour to measure astigmatism and get the right fit for contact lenses.
Dilation
*only if necessary
Eye drops dilate the pupils for your doctor to view your retina, optic nerve, and other internal eye structures.
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Eye Exam Types
Comprehensive In-Store Eye Exam
A full evaluation with one of our doctors, including vision testing, eye health assessments and personalized recommendations.
Contact Lens Exams
If you wear or want to start wearing contact lenses, you’ll need a contact lens exam and fitting to measure your pupil and iris, map your cornea, and evaluate your tear film.
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How Often Do I Need My Eyes Checked?
The American Optometric Association recommends the following guidelines for people with no signs of eye or vision problems:
| 5 - 18 Years | Once a year |
| 19 - 60 Years | Every 1-2 years or as recommended |
| 60+ Years | Once a year |
*Our doctors of optometry provide eye exams for children aged 5 and older. For children younger than 5, please contact us for a referral.
If chronic conditions like diabetes or glaucoma run in your family, you may need more frequent checkups. Our optometrists provide eye exams for patients with diabetes and are qualified to treat eye problems associated with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes.
- Why exams are important
- When to see us
- Insurance/No Insurance
Why exams are important
Why exactly are eye exams so important?
Disease prevention & early detection of serious health problems.
Health problems, including cancer, hypertension, diabetes, and more, can be detected during a routine eye exam. Your eye doctor can notice warning signs of systemic diseases by evaluating the blood vessel health in your retina. Many eye diseases don’t have obvious symptoms such as pain or vision changes, until a serious eye problem has developed.
Experience healthy, perfect vision at every stage of life.
You may not realize you’re missing perfect vision until you see it. For children, vision issues can affect learning, sports and social growth.
For most all ages, long hours on screens often bring digital eye strain, causing dryness, headaches, and blurred vision. Thus, eyesight can decline gradually.
When to see us
If any of the following are true, it’s time to schedule an exam:
- You experience headaches, squinting, or blurred vision.
- Driving at night has become difficult.
- You’ve noticed a sudden increase in ‘floaters,’ spots, and/or bright flashes.
- You have chronic eye pain, redness, dryness, itching, discharge, or irritated skin around the eyes.
- You’ve experienced an injury to the eye or eye area.
Insurance/No Insurance
Using insurance for an eye exam
At Eye Boutique, we take most types of vision insurance and offer free coverage checks to make sure you’re getting the maximum benefits from your plan. If there are any out-of-pocket expenses associated with getting your eye exam, we’ll tell you exactly how it breaks down so you won’t have any surprises.
If you have a medical condition like pink eye or glaucoma, your medical insurance may also be billed for related eye care services.
Our highly trained opticians are happy to show you how to get the most value out of your vision insurance, union health plan, HSA or flex dollars.
Some plans we take:
No insurance for an eye exam
Right now we’re offering comprehensive eye exams for $85* at all Eye Boutique locations (contact lens examinations excluded, terms & conditions apply).
How often should I get my eyes checked?
Most people should have an eye exam every 1–2 years, but your doctor will recommend what’s best for you.
Do at-home online eye exams work?
At-home eye exams provide limited and insufficient information in that they are not able to evaluate the health of your eyes. Optometrist-administered eye exams are comprehensive, health-focused and precise. Although at-home eye exams can give you a small amount of information about your eyesight, seeing an eye doctor to assess your eye health is always recommended.
How much do eye exams cost?
Eye exams are only $85* at Eye Boutique.
What does an eye exam include?
Your overall health, health history and current eye-related concerns all determine what your unique eye exam and eye care will look like. Your eye exam may include:
- A review of your health history as it relates to your vision
- Screening for environmental conditions related to your occupation, hobbies or other factors that could impact your eye health
- Vision chart tests to measure your visual acuity at near and far distances.
You may also have any of the tests below, which measure your depth perception, color vision, peripheral vision, eye muscle function and how pupils respond to light.
- Refraction Tests: During a refraction test, your eye doctor measures how well different lenses you look through focus light. You'll let your eye doctor know which lens option provides you with clearer vision. A refraction test lets your optometrist refine the lens power you need to accurately correct vision problems including nearsightedness, farsightedness or astigmatism.
- Keratometry Tests: During a keratometry test, your eye doctor will focus a circle of light on your cornea (the clear outer part of your eye) to measure its reflection. This lets your optometrist measure the contour of your eye to assess for astigmatism and to achieve the proper fit for contact lenses.
- Tonometry Tests: Tonometry tests measure your eye pressure to detect pressure-related eye diseases such as glaucoma. Our eyes produce and drain clear fluid, and if your eyes have drainage problems, pressure can build up and damage your optic nerves. During a tonometry test, an instrument releases a small puff of air as a sensor measures the corresponding indentation on your eye’s surface.
- Eye Movement Tests: Your eye doctor may perform tests to assess how well your eyes focus and work together. Eye movement tests let your optometrist identify problems affecting your focus or binocular vision.
- Dilation Tests: Your optometrist may dilate your pupils with eye drops to get a better view of your retinas, your optic nerves and other internal eye structures. In some cases, Optomap® dilation-free retinal imaging allows your doctor to conduct a comprehensive retinal exam without dilating your eyes.
- Contact Lens Exams: If you wear or would like to wear contacts, you’ll need a contact lens exam and fitting in addition to a comprehensive eye exam. A contact lens exam includes special tests to measure your pupils and irises, map your corneas and evaluate your tear films. Contact lens wearers need to have their eyes checked regularly for any damage or changes the contact lens use may have caused.
What should you NOT do before an eye exam?
- DO NOT drink alcohol before an eye exam. Even a glass of wine or a beer with your last meal can dilate blood vessels in your retinas.
- DO NOT strain your eyes. If you can, avoid prolonged screen time and other intense visual activities the day or night before your exam.
- DO NOT wear your contact lenses if you’re getting your vision checked. Take them out at least a couple of hours before your appointment, and wear glasses instead (if you’re having a contact lens eye exam, you should wear your lenses so the doctor can evaluate the fit).