Eye Health and Eye Care Services in Mokena, Manhattan, and Crestwood, IL
Serving Lockport, Homer Glen, Romeoville, IL and Surrounding Areas
As a fully licensed and equipped optometric and ophthalmologic practices, Absolute Vision Care offers a complete range of eye care services to all our patients. Whether the eye care issue involves correcting refractive errors with eyeglass or contact lenses, or helping a student find frames that will not look geeky, our experienced team will identify and implement the best eye care solutions possible.
Eye Health Evaluation
With our years of experience in diagnosing and treating typical vision disorders such as nearsightedness, farsightedness, amblyopia, presbyopia, cataracts, macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy, Absolute Vision Care is equipped to provide appropriate therapeutic medical eye care.
At the same time, the our team offers a wide array of the very best high quality eye care products at reasonable prices. Our patients never pay too much for the best quality in eyeglasses, contact lenses, sunglasses, progressive and bifocal lenses, and outstanding service.
Treatment of Eye Disease
If you are diagnosed with an eye disease, you want only the best treatment available to get your eyes healthy again. At Absolute Vision Care , we offer only the best. Based on your diagnosis, we may recommend a wide variety of approaches, including improved nutrition, prescription medicines, therapy and vision exercises, or medical procedures.
Our Services Include:
- LASIK Refractive Surgery Co-management
- Glaucoma Management
- Cataract Surgical Co-management
- Low Vision Care (magnifiers and telescopes)
- Vision Therapy
- Macular Degeneration Care
- 24-hour Emergency Service
- Ocular Disease & Infection
- Dry Eye
- Retinal & Optic Nerve Disorders
- Academic & Athletic testing and treatment
Good Eyecare Begins With A Yearly Eye Exam!
Although many do not realize it, the best way to protect your vision is with a yearly eye checkup. Even an eye exam can instantly detect such health-threatening conditions as tumors, vascular irregularities, and diabetes-related injury to the retina. At AVC, our examinations are comprehensive, but painless.
LASIK, a form of refractive surgery, is an option for vision correction without needing to wear glasses or contact lenses. Simply put, LASIK reshapes the cornea with a laser.
Recently, other surgical alternatives have become available. Among these is a technique called phakic IOL implantation which involves implanting a lens behind the cornea, but in front of the iris. With this new option, many of those who were too highly nearsighted for LASIK are now candidates for refractive surgery.
If you are interested in refractive surgery, please let us know. Refractive surgery is not to be taken lightly. Detailed testing is necessary to determine whether or not you are a good candidate for the surgery. If testing shows you to be a good candidate, we can help you choose the refractive surgeon who is most appropriate for your case. In addition, we provide post-operative care for refractive surgery.
Paula Hearld
I had contemplated the LASIK procedure for quite a while before I approached Dr. Peterson. Because I wore hard contact lenses for over 20 years, Dr. Peterson warned me that I might have a 6-12 month waiting period because my eyes needed to return to their original state before LASIK. The wait was well worth it. Now I love getting up in the morning without fumbling for my glasses.
What is SMILE?
Minimally invasive surgery for correcting vision
Small Incision Lenticule Extraction with SMILE is the most recently developed type of laser eye surgery. It’s a minimally invasive procedure that can correct various vision impairments such as nearsightedness and astigmatism.
It’s a popular option, with over 1.400 clinics and more than 2.500 practicing surgeons worldwide who use SMILE. Millions of eyes with myopia and/or astigmatism have been corrected with SMILE in over 80 countries.
How does SMILE work?
SMILE is running on a femtosecond laser to reshape the cornea. This femtosecond laser is an extremely short-pulsed, near infrared laser often also used to create a LASIK flap. The laser's high peak intensity over a very short pulse duration (within a few femtoseconds of time) allows it to create micro-precision single holes (bubbles) that forms together cuts or planes in the corneal tissue without affecting the surrounding tissue.
It takes less than 30 seconds for the laser to create a small lens-shaped piece of corneal tissue (called the lenticule) inside the cornea. The surgeon then removes the lenticule through a small incision outer part of the eye. This reshapes the cornea and corrects the refractive error.
The femtosecond laser produces a thin layer just beneath the surface of the eye, and at the same time creates a small opening. It’s an almost silent, noiseless, odorless procedure and the patient can remain in the same position from start to finish.
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Step 1: Creation of the lenticule with the laser |
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Step 2: Removal of the lenticule through a small side incision |
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Step 3: Correction of the refraction error or prescription is complete |
Corneal Refractive Therapy (CRT) is a great advancement in refractive therapy options. CRT allows you to see clearly during the day without glasses or contact lenses. Specially designed therapeutic lenses gently reshape the front surface of your eye while you sleep.
Imagine great vision all day without contacts, glasses, or surgery. No more problems from dust, allergies, or dryness. CRT has also been shown to slow the progression of nearsightedness in children and teenagers.
Previously, if you were nearsighted and wanted to see clearly during the day, your options were glasses, contacts, or laser surgery. CRT offers a non-surgical solution. No more worry about broken frames or torn contact lenses. Additionally, while LASIK is usually recommended only for those over 18 years of age, CRT is ideal for our younger patients who are active in sports and do not like the hassle of glasses or contacts.
For more information on Corneal Refractive Therapy, call today to schedule your FREE CRT consultation or visit Paragon at www.paragoncrt.com.
In our continued efforts to bring the most advanced technology available to our patients, our team of optometrists and ophthalmologists is proud to announce the inclusion of Digital Retinal Imaging with the Zeiss Visucam Pro as an integral part of your eye exam.
Many eye problems can develop without warning and progress with no symptoms. Early on, you might not notice any change in your vision. However, diseases such as macular degeneration, glaucoma, retinal tears or detachments, as well as other health problems such as diabetes and high blood pressure, can be detected with a thorough exam of the retina. The retina is the part of your eye that catches the image of what you are looking at, similar to the film in a camera.
A Digital Retinal Exam with the Zeiss Visucam provides:
- A scan to confirm a healthy eye or detect the presence of disease.
- An overview or map of the retina, giving Dr. Loock a more detailed view than she can achieve by other means.
- The opportunity for you to view and discuss the images of your eye with Dr. Loock at the time of your exam.
- A permanent record for your medical file, enabling Dr. Loock to make important comparisons if potential problems show themselves at a future examination.
- Retinal imaging is non-invasive. Nothing touches your eye, we are simply taking a photograph. It is not an X-ray.
Ask our team of optometrists and ophthalmologists or our staff about Digital Retinal Imaging at your next exam!