Amy R. Moy, OD

Pediatric Optometrist

Dr. Amy R. Moy is a Pediatric Optometrist in Boston, MA with special training and skill in evaluating and treating children's visual disorders. As a Pediatric Optometrist, Amy R. Moy, OD performs physical and technological examinations of children's eyes to determine vision sharpness, screen for eye disease, and evaluate patients' need for glasses, contact lenses, or laser vision correction surgery. Pediatric Optometry is a medical speciality focused on detecting, treating, and preventing children's eye disorders, prescribing glasses and contact lenses, and recommending vision correction surgery. Significant diseases and conditions treated by Pediatric Optometrists include nearsightedness, farsightedness, chronic dry eye, astigmatism, eye movement disorders, glaucoma, eye tumor, and amblyopia (lazy eye). Medical tests, procedures and therapies provided by Pediatric Optometrists include visual acuity testing, inspection for eye disease and tumor, astigmatism testing, glasses and contact lens fitting, eye muscle movement evaluation, color blindness screening, depth perception assessment, glaucoma testing, and retinoscopy.

Optometrists who work in Pediatrics are concerned with the prevention, development, diagnosis, and treatment of visual problems in children.