Adult, Pediatric and Ortho-K Eye Care
Our eye center was created to serve Fayetteville, Ft. Bragg, Raeford, Lumberton, Spring Lake, Hope Mills and surrounding communities. Our office has multiple exam rooms, each designed to meet specific patient needs. Our contact lens area is set apart from the exam and waiting rooms in order to provide a secluded space for patients to be trained by our doctors who know how to properly insert, remove, and care for all types of contact lenses, including sleepSEE Ortho-K lenses.
As a full-scope vision center, our office also houses a first-class optical boutique featuring competitively priced eyewear and premium prescription lenses for adults and children.
Infants, Children & Kids Eye Exams
You should schedule your child’s (newborns, babies, infants, and toddlers) first eye exam when they are between six and twelve months of age. Our optometric physician (optometrist) has served the local pediatric population for over 15 years. He understands that vision is the dominant sensory system in humans and plays a critical role in child development.
It is estimated that 70% of what a child learns occurs through their visual system. And as someone who suffered from a vision related learning problem as a child, he stresses the importance of early eye exams for children.
Studies have shown by the year 2050 over 90% of the US population will be nearsighted (myopia). It is clear that the growing use of cell phones, reading tablets and computers in education, and at home, are having negative effects on our children’s eyes.
At the Eye Medics vision center, we stress the importance of getting yearly comprehensive eye exams by one of our optometrists. This enables us to monitor for abnormal changes such as progressive myopia (nearsightedness), convergence insufficiency, strabismus, accommodative infacility and other learning related vision problems that lead to poor reading, writing and academic achievement. For example, when nearsighted progression occurs, we can slow down this progression using clinically proven methods, such as ortho-k (sleepSEE). Prevention is our motto.