Eye care

Your eyes are an important part of your health

There’s no more important sense than vision. Learn how to enhance and protect your gift of sight by having regular eye exams, understanding how your eyes work, eating well to keep your eyes healthy, knowing how your vision changes as you age, how to protect your eyes from harm, and more.

A visual field test to measure your side (peripheral) vision. A loss of peripheral vision may be a sign of glaucoma.

A visual acuity test, where you read an eye chart about 20 feet away, to check on how well you see at various distances

Tonometry, which measures your eye's interior pressure. It helps to detect glaucoma.

Dilation, which involves getting eye drops that dilate (widen) your pupils. This allows more light to enter the eye. Your eye care provider examines your eyes using a special magnifying lens. This provides a clear view of important tissues at the back of your eye,