Maintaining patients’ best possible vision and eye health is the mission for the professionals at Complete Eye Care in Soddy-Daisy.
Complete Eye Care is ready to help new patients see better.Dr. J.D. Bonner, a board-certified ophthalmologist, opened the practice and has been at the Soddy-Daisy location since May 2000.
“The leading causes of vision loss are cataracts, diabetes, macular degeneration and glaucoma,” he said, stressing that routine eye exams are crucial to ensure healthy eyes and vision long term. Routine eye exams are even more important for those with a family history of macular degeneration or glaucoma, said Dr. Bonner.
Decreased vision from cataracts is reversible with cataract surgery, he added. “Oftentimes, cataract surgery will decrease your dependency on glasses, and mutifocal lenses and lenses that correct for astigmatism may alleviate the need for glasses altogether,” said Dr. Bonner. Those options as well as new laser-assisted cataract surgery technology are available at Complete Eye Care.
For diabetics, he advises that those patients be seen every year, regardless of symptoms or diabetic changes, adding that the closer to normal the blood sugar is contained, the less likely patients are to have eye disease from diabetes. “Decreasing hemoglobin A1C by 1 and maintaining it there has been demonstrated to decrease the risk of developing diabetic retinopathy [damage to the retina from diabetes] by 30-50 percent,” he said.