Eye exams in New Albany, Ohio.
COVE runs several kinds of eye exams, from a routine vision check to focused evaluations for contact lenses, diabetes, and macular degeneration. Every exam uses the same digital equipment, whether it's your first visit or your fifteenth: an iCare tonometer with no air puff, a Marco digital refractor, and wide-field retinal imaging that lets us view inside the eye without drops for the imaging itself. Find the exam that matches what brought you in below.
Six kinds of exams, one practice.
Not sure which visit you need? Most patients start with a routine exam. If you already wear or want contacts, have diabetes, or have a family history of macular degeneration, jump straight to the exam built for that.
Routine eye exam
A full check of your vision and eye health — refraction, eye pressure, and wide-field retinal imaging. This is the right visit for a new patient, an annual exam, or an updated glasses prescription.
Learn more about routine eye exams →Pediatric eye exam
Kid-friendly exams that check for the vision problems that affect learning and development. We fit exams to a child's age and attention span, starting as young as 6 months. Kids under about 6 typically get cycloplegic (dilating) drops so we can measure their prescription accurately.
Learn more about pediatric eye exams →Contact lens exam
A separate exam from your routine visit — we measure the curvature of your cornea, check your tear film, and fit trial lenses before confirming your contact lens prescription.
Learn more about contact lens exams →Diabetic eye exam
Diabetes can affect the blood vessels in your retina before you notice any vision change. Our wide-field retinal imaging lets us view the retina closely to check for diabetic changes, often without dilating drops.
Learn more about diabetic eye exams →Macular degeneration exam
If you have a family history of macular degeneration or you're noticing changes in your central vision, this exam takes a close look at your macula with imaging built to catch early changes.
Learn more about macular degeneration exams →Myopia management
For kids whose nearsightedness is progressing, we offer ortho-k, atropine drops, and myopia control contact and spectacle lenses that may help slow progression — and lower the long-term eye-health risks that come with high myopia.
Learn more about myopia management →
Three doctors, one local practice.
Drs. Karres, Keller, and Dennis all see patients for routine, pediatric, and medical exams. Dr. Karres brings a research background in scleral lens filling solution and contact lens solutions generally, plus hands-on WAVE scleral lens design for complex fits. Dr. Keller sees the majority of COVE's pediatric patients and is our team's InfantSEE provider. Whoever you see, you're getting the same practice and the same records.
Meet our doctors and team →
Dr. Karres owns COVE and leads the practice's specialty contact lens work, but every doctor on our team runs the full range of exams above, on the same digital equipment, with the same records.
The right exam catches problems before they affect your vision, not after.
Diabetic eye disease and macular degeneration often progress with no early symptoms. Regular exams, matched to your risk factors, are how we catch changes while there's still something we can do about them.
Schedule your exam.
We see patients from New Albany, Gahanna, Westerville, Johnstown, and across Central Ohio. Not sure which exam you need? Call us and we'll help you book the right one.