Annual eye exams are important for many reasons, but become vital to our well being as we age. Eye diseases such as glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration are more prevalent as we get older.
What’s truly frustrating is how many of these eye diseases do not present symptoms until vision loss has already begun to occur.
This means that only your eye care professional can detect the early stages of eye diseases that could cause irreversible blindness.
So how do we do it?