Optometry Centre

The general eye health examination (GE) is a comprehensive check of your eye that not only includes obtaining the prescription of your spectacles, but also ensuring that there are no abnormalities that require further investigations. If it is your first visit to the Optometry Centre, you will have to undergo the GE to obtain a baseline record of your eye health. Due to its comprehensive nature, the duration of the GE is typically between 90 minutes to 120 minutes. The eye tests that are typically performed during the GE are as follows:

The student optometrist assists in the optometry lecturer to perform the eye tests for you. The optometry lecturer ensures that the eye tests are performed appropriately and accurately, and will repeat some critical tests.

If you are interested in trying out contact lenses or you are having problems with your own contact lenses, talk to our student optometrists or optometry lecturers about having a contact lens consultation. The contact lens consultation begins with asking about your visual demands and lifestyle, followed by measurement of your corneal dimensions.


An examination of the health of the front of your eye ensures that you are suitable for contact lens wear. By integrating the information obtained from your input and the measurements, the student optometrist in consultation with the optometry lecturer will recommend the appropriate contact lens to be placed in your eye for trial fitting.


During the trial fitting process, the lens in your eye will be scrutinised for its movement, centration and coverage. At the end of the consultation, the most suitable lens will be prescribed for you. The duration of the consultation is between 90 minutes to 2 hours, depending on the number of lenses tried. The list of tests that are typically performed during a contact lens consultation is as follows:

With the worsening problem of myopia (short-sightedness) in children, having an eye examination that is specially catered for your young ones is of particularly importance. Apart from examining and monitoring the changes in your child’s eye power, other important aspects of the visual system is also examined. This include the ability to perceive depth (3D perception), colour vision, alignment of the eyes, focusing ability and accuracy, as well as the general eye health.


NP Optometry Centre is equipped with the Lenstar Ocular Biometer that can accurately measure the length of your child’s eye. Since myopia progression is caused by the lengthening of the eyeball, the Lenstar will be able to consistently and objectively monitor the progression of your child’s myopia. Do talk to our optometry lecturers who have special interest in children’s vision, on controlling your child’s myopia.


The list of tests that are typically performed during a contact lens consultation is as follows:

NP Optometry Centre carries a full range of spectacle frames for the young to the old. Children requires spectacle frames with appropriate sizes to ensure that they are looking through the lenses all the time. Individuals above 40 may require frames that can be used with progressive lenses to allow distance and near vision with the same pair of spectacles.


Rest assured, our staff will be able to advise you not just on your eye health, but also the appropriate type of spectacle lenses, and help to select the most suitable pair of spectacle frames for you.

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Fees stated are correct at time of publication. NP Optometry Centre reserves the right to alter the fees prior to notice.