Those bright lights!

While I personally find going to the dentist to be a much scarier prospect than going to the eye doctor, there are many people who don’t like the eye doctor’s office. Why? Those bright lights! We use very bright lights during our examination, and we dilate patients to make the situation even worse. Why do we submit people to this torture?? In order to get a proper eye exam, especially a complete eye exam such as an annual eye exam, patients have to be dilated. So that makes everyone more light sensitive. The other issue is that the inside of the eyeball is really dark! It takes bright lights to illuminate what we are seeing. The bottom line is that we can’t see what we need to see without a dilated pupil and bright lights. We understand that it is quite a nuisance, but we also hope that you share our belief that maintaining good eye health is very important.