The visit that measures how you see and also looks at the eye itself, rather than stopping at which lens is sharper.
A comprehensive exam has two halves that people tend to collapse into one. The first is the refraction, which is the part everyone remembers: lens one or lens two, and a number at the end. The second is the health check — pressure, the front surface, the lens, and a view of the retina and optic nerve at the back. The prescription is what you leave with, but the health half is the reason the visit is scheduled on a repeating basis rather than whenever the glasses stop working.
Seeing the back of the eye takes either dilating drops or retinal imaging, and practices handle that differently. Ask which one your exam includes, whether imaging is offered instead of drops or in addition to them, and whether it is billed separately from the exam. Ask the same about the refraction, which some plans treat as its own line. None of that is unusual to ask and the front desk answers it every day.
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