About . Est. 2011 . A1

An independent practice since 2011.

Two doctors, one optician, one front desk lead and a frame wall we actually like. No parent company deciding how long your exam gets to be.

Book an examMeet the doctors
An optometrist in a white coat and glasses writes on a clipboard beside an exam instrument
01The storyB2

It started with one exam lane and a borrowed chair.

Dr. Hana Brandt opened On Point Optical in 2011 in the same building we are in now, back when the frame wall was two shelves and the waiting room was a bench. She had spent six years at a chain, seeing a patient every fifteen minutes, and wanted to find out what eye care looked like if you gave it room.

Dr. Luis Ortega joined in 2016 and brought the dry eye clinic with him. Mei came on as our optician in 2018 and rebuilt the frame wall around small makers. The second exam lane went in the year after.

We are still a small practice on purpose. Most of our patients have been coming back for years, and a lot of them now bring their kids.

02Why independentC1

Minutes per exam. That is the whole argument.

A typical chain exam runs fifteen to twenty minutes. Ours runs forty. That extra time is where we can spot an early cataract, pressure that is creeping up, or the reason your new glasses give you a headache by 3pm.

Nobody here is paid on commission. If your old frames are fine, we will tell you to keep them and just put new lenses in.

40 minutes per exam
2 exam lanes
2011 same building
Sat open 9am to 3pm
03The equipmentD4

The machines, in plain words.

What is in the exam lane and what it does
MachineWhat it does for you
PhoropterThe big mask of lenses. It is how we land on your exact prescription, one "better one or two" at a time.
Slit lampA microscope with a thin beam of light. We look at the front of your eye: lids, cornea, lens, tear film.
Retinal cameraA wide photo of the back of your eye. Often replaces dilation, and we keep it to compare next year.
TonometerMeasures eye pressure. A gentle puff or a quick touch after a numbing drop. A key glaucoma check.
Visual field testerYou click a button when you see a dot. It maps your side vision.
TopographerMaps the curve of your cornea. Essential for fitting contacts that feel like nothing.
A patient looks into a phoropter while an optometrist turns one of its dials

Lane 1. The phoropter.

04ColophonE1

The small print.

Set in Inter Tight, Inter and Roboto Mono on a twelve column grid. Photographs are stock, shown in black and white. The people in them are not our staff.

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