Calgary Trail Vision Centre: Eyewear, Eye Exam & Eye Doctor in Edmonton, Alberta
At Calgary Trail Vision Centre, our team of eye care experts are committed to giving you expert eye health care through comprehensive eye exams. Using the latest in cutting-edge technology, we assess and care for the health of your eyes. Because eyes are important indicators of overall health, comprehensive eye care goes beyond a prescription for glasses or contact lenses. At Calgary Trail Vision Centre, we take the time to get to know you, your eye care history, and your vision needs. By continually updating our skills and equipment, we ensure that we are providing you and your family with the very best in eye-care.
We invite you to look around our website to see the services offered here. Our eye doctors in South Edmonton, Alberta, are happy to answer any questions you may have before, during and after your exam. Calgary Trail Vision Centre's optometrist provides expert care, advice, options, and follow-up to our neighbors and their families in Southgate, Calgary Trail North, Empire Park, Duggan, Riverbend, Mill Woods and the entire South Edmonton region.
Our Edmonton Eye Care Services
Focus on Dry Eyes
Dry eyes, or, Dry Eye Syndrome, is a complex condition that can have multiple causes but tends to share common symptoms.
Focus on Contact Lenses
Whether you wear daily, weekly or monthly disposables, or conventional (vial) lenses, check out our selection of lenses that fit your needs.
Focus on Diabetic Retinopathy
High blood sugar directly causes Diabetic Retinopathy. If not treated early, it can lead to blindness. However, if you can control your blood sugar, you can reduce your chances of having Diabetic Retinopathy as well.
Eye Exams in Edmonton at Calgary Trail Vision Centre
Regardless of your age or physical health, it’s important to have regular eye exams.
During a complete eye exam, our South Edmonton eye doctor will not only determine your prescription for eyeglasses or contact lenses, but will also check your eyes for common eye diseases, assess how your eyes work together as a team and evaluate your eyes as an indicator of your overall health. We provide comprehensive eye exams for the whole family including eye care for children!
Q&A with Optometrist, Dr. Butts | Focus on Myopia
Nearsightedness, know as Myopia, is one of the most common vision problems. Nearsighted people have difficulty reading signs and clearly seeing distant objects, but they can see up-close tasks such as reading or sewing, just fine. According to Susan Vitale, NEI epidemiologist of ocular diseases and vision disorders who led the studies, “The good news about myopia is that it is easy to treat.”
Refractive surgery is a more “permanent” option for correcting myopia. This includes laser procedures such as LASIK and PRK, or non-laser options such as corneal inserts and implantable lenses. One advantage of the non-laser options is that, although they’re intended to be permanent, they may be removed in case of a problem or change of prescription.
Orthokeratology is a non-surgical procedure where special rigid gas permeable (GP) contact lenses are used to slowly reshape the cornea during sleep. After the lenses are removed the cornea retains the new shape. The patient can see clearly during the day without wearing glasses or contact lenses.
Orthokeratology, commonly called ortho-k, is a method used to correct myopia (nearsightedness) or astigmatism by wearing rigid gas permeable contact lenses overnight, so that no corrective lenses are needed during daytime hours.
Gas permeable (GP) lenses specialized for ortho-k are inserted at bedtime and worn as you sleep. Throughout the night, the lenses reshape your cornea gently so that your vision becomes clear on the following morning. The correction is temporary, and ideally no eyeglasses or contact lenses will be needed on the next day or two. In order to maintain sharp visual acuity on a daily basis, you need to wear the ortho-k reshaping lenses every night.
Eye Emergencies
If you experience loss of vision, double vision, swelling, infection or any eye emergency, contact us immediately for guidance. We’ll help you with the best treatment to prevent complications and promote long-lasting clear eyesight.
Please call our eye care centre in Edmonton at: 780-439-2085 for further instructions. Use your best judgment on urgency, if you feel your need to find the nearest emergency room.
Recently, an eye doctor at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE) conducted a unique research study exploring the potential link between long-term dietary changes and preventing primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG). The study’s results indicated that if people at a high risk of developing glaucoma eat a diet that’s low in carbohydrates and high in fat and vegetable protein, they may lower their risk of this sight-threatening ocular disease by 20 percent. These results were published in Eye-Nature (July 22 issue).
Since blue eyes contain very little melanin — a pigment that helps block out light, including the sun’s harmful UV rays and blue light — they often feel more sensitive to bright light. Find out more.
More and more children are being diagnosed with myopia, a common refractive error associated with developing serious eye diseases later in life, such as macular degeneration and glaucoma. Find out what myopia is and how to prevent it from progressing
Edmonton, AB T6H 6A1
- Phone: 780-439-2085
- Fax: 780-433-2442
- Monday: 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
- Tuesday: 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
- Wednesday: 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
- Thursday: 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
- Friday: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
- Saturday: Closed
- Sunday: Closed
In case of emergency, please phone our office at the number listed above and follow the instructions.