The doctors and staff of Front Range Eye Health Center welcome you to experience the professional and friendly environment of our office. Special attention is given to create a atmosphere where you will experience the latest technology for your eye health and vision evaluation in a comfortable and relaxed atmosphere. We continually update our eyeglass frame and contact lens selections to offer our patients the latest in fashion and lifestyle options. Our goal is to provide the optimum in visual, medical and surgical eyecare.
The Front Range Eye Health Center is committed to providing you and your family with a lifetime of healthy vision. Many eye problems are subtle, and may not initially affect your eyesight. It is important to have your eye health evaluated regularly, even if you feel that your vision is stable and are seeing well. If detected early, many sight threatening conditions can be treated before impairment occurs.
Our comprehensive eye examinations evaluate your eyes, both inside and out, for any potential disorders or diseases. Your visual skills and abilities are carefully evaluated and appropriate treatment is prescribed - whether it's medication, lenses or low vision rehabilitation. All of our doctors have extensive residency training and are prepared to handle whatever your eyecare needs may be.
We participate with many major medical insurance plan carriers and vision care plans. Please feel free to call our office at (303) 665-7797 and ask to speak with one of our insurance experts to verify your insurance coverage.
Because symptoms, findings, and diagnoses vary, there are times when non-routing, medical care is necessary to properly diagnose and treat eye health related disorders. In these cases, we may need to submit your claim to your major medical insurance carrier (heath insurance) and not to your routine vision plan.
Below is a list of the major medical insurance carriers and routine vision plans with which we participate. If your carrier or plan is not listed, please call our office to determine if we have recently added them to our list. You will find we are thorough and compassionate in providing a lifetime of heathy vision.
Aetna, Beech Street, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Choice Net/Intercare, Cigna, First Health, GEHA, Great West Healthcare, Guardian, HMO Colorado, HMS Healthcare, Humana Choice Care, Medicare, Mountain Medical Affiliates, Mutual of Omaha, One Health, Opticare, PHCS, PPO USA, Principal, Rocky Mountain Health Plans, Sloans Lake, Superior Vision Plan, Tricare (Champus), United Health Care, United Mine Workers (UMWA), Vision Service Plan, Vision Source 20/20 Eyecare Program, Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR), Wausau.
Our full-service optical provides a vast selection of lens and frame styles for adults and children.
We offer many conservative to fashion forward design choices for everyday use. In addition, we specialize in providing unique optical products such as prescription scuba masks, electricians' glasses (bifocals top and bottom), racquetball, skiing and other sports eyewear, prescription lenses for many kinds of sunglass frames, as well as many other customizations to meet everyone's lifestyle needs.
With an on-site laboratory, most glasses can be made on the spot and are finished that day.
Our expert opticians have extensive training and are certified as professionals in their field. With decades of experience in assisting patients with the right choice of frames and lenses for any lifestyle - from every day activities to biking, golf, skiing, computer use, reading and much more - they have the expertise to help you make the best decisions for your eyewear needs.
Our adult and children's frames come in many shapes, sizes and colors which depending our your desire may be extremly lightweight, ultra strong yet extremely flexible, and hypoallergenic.
Common lens options include: The thinnest/lightest lenses on the market; No-line bifocals or trifocals (progressive addition lenses); Easy to clean anti-glare/reflection lenses; Ultra-hard scratch resistant lenses; Full spectrum ultraviolet protection lenses; Polarized lenses; Photochromic lenses that automatically darken in the sunlight; Improved night vision lenses; Shatter resistant safety lenses; And . . . many others.
Choose from Bebe, Columbia, Hoya, Kodak, Marchon, Maui Jim, Oakley, Rudy Project, Silhouette, Valentino, Varilux, Vera Wang and many more.
Appointments are NOT required for the selection and fitting of eyeglasses, and we do not charge for adjustments or repairs (unless new parts are needed).
Your glasses should help you see your best, meet the unique visual demands of your lifestyle, protect your eyes at work and play, and perhaps most of all - make you feel and look great!
We take great pride in the contact lens aspect of our practice.
We are able to fit virtually any type of standard or specialty contact lens. These range from conventional disposable soft lenses, to those requiring contact lenses to assist in the management of post-surgical, post-traumatic and/or disease affected eyes.
Examples of contact lens types fit in our office include:
Our office specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of medical eye disorders. Great emphasis is placed managing eye disease. With state-of-the-art technology, combined with the clinical expertise of our doctors and staff, medical eye disorders are commonly treated in our office.
Following are examples routinely managed at our office:
LASIK is a quick, comfortable, outpatient surgical procedure that uses a laser to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, and/or astigmatism. With LASIK, a thin flap in the cornea is created using a laser (“bladeless”) or a microkeratome. After the flap is created, it is gently lifted aside, where an additional laser sculpts the underlying corneal tissue to precisely adjust your prescription. In finishing the procedure, the flap is laid back in place, covering the area where the corneal tissue was removed.
With nearsighted people, the goal of LASIK is to flatten the too-steep cornea; with farsighted people, a steeper cornea is desired. LASIK can also correct astigmatism by smoothing an irregular cornea into a more normal shape.
If you are considering LASIK eye surgery, your first step is to undergo a comprehensive examination with one of our doctors who will evaluate whether LASIK is right for you. Our doctors will examine your eyes to determine their health, what kind of vision correction you need, and how much laser ablation (corneal tissue removal) is required. The doctor will also determine if there are any health or eye conditions that may complicate the LASIK procedure.
If you're not a candidate for LASIK, you may qualify for another laser eye procedure such as PRK (similar to LASIK but without the flap). Your prescription and eye structure will be considered to help determine which procedure is best for you.
“Dry eye syndrome” is one of the most common complaints treated by eye doctors today, especially in Colorado's dry environment. Persistent dryness with redness, grittyness, burning and/or contact lens intolerance of are often symptoms of dry eye syndrome. Usually, this is an ongoing condition that can be managed with lubricating drops, humidifiers and lacrimal plugs. For more detailed information on Dry Eye Syndrome - symptoms, causes and other treatment options, click on EYECYCLOPEDIA in the column on the right and enter Dry Eye in the Keyword search. If you are experiencing these symptoms, please let us know so that we can discuss your individual options.
Glaucoma affects an estimated 3 million Americans, with over 100,000 blind to this disease. We take the health of your eye very seriously, and this is one of the reasons we use the latest technology, Stratus Ocular Coherence Tomography (OCT), to examine your eyes for glaucoma and retinal diseases. The Stratus OCT was developed to diagnose and monitor a patient's eye health through an ultra-high resultion tomographic imaging scan of the optic nerve head, nerve fiber layer, macula, and surrounding retinal structures. The test results using the Stratus OCT provide our doctors optimum information to diagnose, treat and provide ongoing management for patients with glaucoma and retinal diseases.
Our office takes great pride in caring for patients of all ages - from infants to seniors.
One in every 10 children is at risk from undiagnosed eye and vision problems, yet only 13 percent of parents with children younger than 2 years of age said they had taken their child to see an eye and vision care professional for a regular check-up or well-care visit.
Early intervention is critical to successful and cost-effective treatment. Despite the nation’s present system of school vision screening, there exists a lack of understanding by the public of the importance of periodic professional eye and vision assessments. Unfortunately, during the course of their young lives, most children probably never see an eye care practitioner who can provide the kind of professional eye assessment necessary to identify critical eye and vision problems at an early stage, explain those conditions to parents, and provide the care necessary to correct those problems.
Our office compassionately assists you in making sure that your children's visual and medical eye health care needs are met.
Do you know that:
1 in 10 children is at risk from undiagnosed vision problems.
1 in 30 children will be affected by amblyopia – often referred to as lazy eye – a leading cause of vision loss in people younger than 45 years.
1 in 25 will develop strabismus – more commonly known as crossed-eyes – a risk factor for amblyopia.
1 in 33 will show significant refractive error such as nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism.
1 in 100 will exhibit evidence of eye disease – e.g. glaucoma.
1 in 20,000 children have retinoblastoma (intraocular cancer) the seventh most common pediatric cancer.
Our office offers the most modern surgical and co-surgical management procedures and follow-up care for numerous ophthalmic surgical disorders including: Cataract, Eyelid, Glaucoma, Pterygium, Refractive, Retina, and others. Our office will work hand-in-hand with you during the pre-operative assessment, discussion of findings and options, scheduling of your procedure, and completion of your post-operative care to assure that your surgical experience is as compassionate, comfortable and successful as possible.
Our office offers the Optomap® Retinal Examination. This state-of-the art scanning laser technology allows your doctor to examine a digital image of your retina (similar to a photograph). Signs of sight and life threatening diseases such as macular degeneration, glaucoma, retinal detachments, cancerous tumors, diabetes and high blood pressure are but a few of the conditions that can be effectively observed with this technology. When complimented with (and sometimes without) pupil dilation the Optomap® improves your doctor’s ability to determine the health of your eyes. The Optomap® is quick, painless, and will be saved as a permanent part of your patient record.
The Optomap® produces a single 200 degree ultra-wide field image of the retina, allowing your doctor to see more of your retina at once than ever before.
The Optomap® Retinal Examination offers many advantages including:
Provides an ultra-widefield view of the retina
Comfortable and quick image capture
Painless, quick and non-invasive
Assists in helping you to understand your eye health
Provides permanent records for future comparison
As a result, all of our doctors recommend that you obtain an Optomap® Retinal Examination every year.
