Office Safety & Scheduling Procedures Update

IMPORTANT: Your safety and health is our highest priority. Our staff members are working diligently to maintain a safe environment for all our patients who are receiving care at our office:

  1. If you have a sight or life-threatening emergency, please call 911 or contact your nearest Emergency Room.
  2. Due to the large number of patients returning to our office since the pandemic, we had to update our scheduling procedures so that we can ensure the safety of all our patients and staff. Typically, we are able to reply to most inquiries within about 1-2 business days.
  3. If you are new to our office, to streamline the scheduling process, please kindly email us at odtong@bxbsecure.com with the patient’s name, age, who referred you, and a 1-2 sentence description of your main concerns. All services are by appointment only. 
  4. If you have been to our office before, please email us at odtong@bxbsecure.com, text us at (626) 565-3534, or leave a voice message at (626) 578-9685 if you have any questions. Typically, we are able to reply to most inquiries within about 1-2 business days.
  5. PRECAUTIONS REGARDING COVID-19 AND OTHER ILLNESSES:
    1. If within the past 5-7 days you have experienced any symptoms (other than the COVID vaccine reactions), been in close contact with anyone with COVID, traveled internationally or out-of-state, or been on an airplane, please inform our staff immediately.
    2. Per the current City of Pasadena and Los Angeles County requirements, all patients and staff members will be subject to temperature screening and still required to wear face masks at all times during the visit.
    3. Download a PDF with further details of our Safety and Health Protocols.
  6. If you need any other assistance, please leave a voice message at (626) 578-9685 with your name and phone number so that one of our team members can return your call.

How good is your eyesight? Take a Vision Quiz. Do a Symptom Checklist.

How good is your eyesight? Take a Vision Quiz. Do a Symptom Checklist.

Quick Vision Quiz

  1. If I have 20/20 vision, I can't have a vision problem.
    True or False?

  2. Vision is learned.
    True or False?

  3. All children are ready to read at the age of six.
    True or False?

  4. Eyesight is hereditary.  You can't do anything about it.
    True or False?

  5. Visual problems can affect a person's self-esteem and hinder success.
    True or False?

  6. Surgery is the only way to correct strabismus (a turned eye).
    True or False?

  7. Amblyopia (lazy eye) cannot be corrected after the person reaches the age of seven.
    True or False?

Vision Quiz Answers

Eyes and Vision Symptoms Checklist

If you check off several items, a comprehensive eye exam is recommended.

Do you observe the following behavior(s) in yourself or your child?

  1. One eye turns, drifts or aims in a different direction than the other eye? Crossed eye? Wandering eye?
    (Look carefully -- this can be subtle. This is significant even if it only happens occasionally, such as when the person is tired, stressed or ill).
  2. Frequent squinting or closing of one eye?
  3. Excessive blinking or squinting?
  4. Poor visual/motor skills (including "hand-eye coordination")?
  5. Problems moving in space, frequently bumps into things or drops things?
  6. Difficulties catching and/or throwing airborne objects?
  7. Repeatedly confuses left and right directions?
  8. Appears to favor the use of one eye?
  9. Turns or tilts head in order to use one eye?
  10. Posture problems? Head is frequently tilted to one side or one shoulder is obviously higher?

While reading or doing close work, do you notice any of the following in yourself or your child?

  1. Becomes quickly fatigued?
  2. Has posture problems?
  3. Rubs eyes frequently?
  4. Squints or blinks excessively?
  5. Frequently loses one's place when reading or copying from the board or paper?
  6. Frequently skips words and/or has to re-read?
  7. Repeatedly omits small words?
  8. Vision becomes blurry?
  9. Uses finger to read?
  10. Holds the book or object unusually close?
  11. Closes one eye or covers eye with hand?
  12. Twists or tilts head toward book or papers?
  13. Moves head back and forth (instead of moving eyes)?
  14. Struggles with handwriting?

Do you or your child frequently complain of:

  1. Only able to read for short periods of time?
  2. Burning or itching eyes?
  3. Headaches in forehead or temples?
  4. Nausea or dizziness?
  5. Motion sickness?
  6. Double vision?

If you checked off several items on the Checklist above, you should consider a comprehensive vision examination.

More Vision Quizzes + Developmental Checklists

Preschoolers Visual Development

A detailed checklist for parents of Preschoolers children. What are the normal stages and ages for visual development? Is your child's vision developing normally?

Vision and Learning Disabilities

A short checklist for parents with information on LDs and vision from the American Optometric Association.

Learning-related Vision Problems

A vision screening quiz for parents and teachers. This multiple choice quiz gives a numerical score with recommendations.

There's More to Healthy Vision than 20/20 Eyesight!

Learn more about symptoms of visual problems which affect
reading skills, learning disabilities and, in some cases, overall
reading, learning, school, sports and life success.