Business Details
50+ Years
experience
Expert Opticians in Colchester | Owen Aves
Established in 1957, Owen Aves has built a proud legacy of delivering high-quality, pioneering community eye care. As an independent practice, we prioritise your visual health by recommending products and solutions tailored to your individual needs. Our approach combines advanced technology, including Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) for detailed eye imaging, with a commitment to personalised care. We serve patients with diverse visual requirements, offering comprehensive services such as eye examinations, spectacles, contact lenses, and myopia management. Our team of GOC-registered optometrists and dispensing opticians brings extensive expertise to ensure accurate diagnostics and effective vision correction.We maintain a strong focus on affordability and accessibility, providing NHS sight tests for eligible individuals and a wide range of spectacles to suit all budgets. Our dedication to innovation is evident in our Ortho-K services, which offer non-surgical vision correction for active lifestyles. With over six decades of experience, we remain committed to ethical practices, transparency, and the highest standards of patient care.
Services
Eye Examinations
Spectacles
Contact Lenses
Sunglasses
Myopia Management
Ortho-K
Frame Repairs
Details
- Year established: 1957
Highlights and features
- We have over 60 years of experience in community eye care.
- Our team utilises advanced OCT technology for precise diagnostics.
- We offer personalised solutions tailored to individual visual needs.
- Our optometrists and dispensing opticians are GOC registered.
- We provide free NHS sight tests for eligible patients.
Associations and certifications
- General Optical Council (GOC)
What people say
Excellent service
Warm and welcoming
Care and quick thinking
Pioneering community eye care
Services
Eye Examinations
Our comprehensive eye examinations utilise advanced technology like OCT scans to detect early signs of visual problems. These tests assess eye health, identify prescription needs, and screen for conditions such as glaucoma. Conducted by GOC-registered optometrists, the process includes diagnostic testing and tailored recommendations for vision correction, ensuring accurate and preventative care for all ages.
Ortho-K
Ortho-K involves wearing rigid gas-permeable lenses overnight to gently reshape the cornea, providing clear daytime vision without glasses or contacts. This non-surgical solution benefits myopic patients, including children, by slowing myopia progression. Our team offers consultations, lens fitting, and follow-up care to ensure safe and effective results for active lifestyles and long-term eye health.
Spectacles
We provide a wide range of spectacles tailored to individual prescriptions and lifestyles, from budget-friendly options to designer frames. Our qualified dispensing opticians assist in selecting durable, stylish eyewear, including lightweight titanium and rimless designs. We also offer repair services for frame adjustments and replacements, ensuring long-term satisfaction with your vision correction solution.
Contact Lenses
Our contact lens services include consultations to determine suitability, trial periods, and training for insertion and removal. We offer daily disposables, monthly disposables, toric lenses for astigmatism, and multifocal options. Gas-permeable lenses are available for complex prescriptions, alongside cosmetic colour lenses, ensuring comfortable and effective vision correction tailored to your daily needs.
Myopia Management
Specialised myopia management services aim to slow short-sightedness progression in children using advanced spectacle and contact lenses. Regular sight tests monitor changes, reducing risks of high myopia-related complications like retinal detachment. Our approach combines clinical expertise with preventative strategies to safeguard children's long-term visual health and reduce dependency on thick corrective lenses.
People
Owen Aves
Founder
Established in 1957, Owen Aves pioneered independent community eye care in Colchester, focusing on ethical practices and patient-centred solutions. His legacy continues through advanced diagnostics and tailored vision correction services.
Questions
What services does Owen Aves offer?
We provide eye examinations, spectacles, contact lenses, sunglasses, myopia management, and Ortho-K services, alongside frame repairs and NHS sight tests for eligible patients.
Are NHS eye tests available?
Yes, we offer free NHS sight tests for eligible individuals, including those under 16, over 60, or with specific medical conditions like diabetes.
What is Ortho-K?
Ortho-K uses overnight contact lenses to reshape the cornea, providing clear daytime vision without glasses or surgery, ideal for active lifestyles and myopia control in children.
Do you cater to children's eye care?
Yes, we specialise in myopia management and regular sight tests to monitor children's vision development and prevent long-term complications from short-sightedness.
Do you repair spectacles?
We offer minor repairs like replacing screws and nose pads in-house, with complex repairs handled by specialists to restore your frames' functionality and fit.
