Nan Fang Optometrists is a long-standing primary eye care practice that has served the heartland of Serangoon for more than 55 years. Its mission is simple — Clear Vision, Healthy Eyes — and everything about the practice reflects it: careful, detailed examinations by registered optometrists using advanced optometric instrumentation, with prescriptions tuned for clear, comfortable vision rather than headaches and eyestrain.
The practice covers the full span of everyday eye care: refraction and comprehensive eye examinations that peer at the cornea, lens and retina; screenings for glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration; and children's vision care for ages 7 to 16. Myopia control is a particular focus, with myopia control glasses proven to slow myopia progression by 60%, alongside orthokeratology and specialized soft contact lenses.
Nan Fang also brings deep expertise to binocular vision — how the two eyes work as a team. It assesses and treats Binocular Vision Dysfunction, convergence insufficiency, vertical heterophoria and double vision through detailed one-to-two hour examinations, prism lenses and optometrist-supervised vision therapy.
For eyewear, the practice carries a wide range of spectacle frames from infants to adults and a spectrum of contact lenses for children through to adults, always with professional advice for your prescription and eye condition. Contact lens purchases are preceded by the eye examination and fitting session required under Singapore's Optometrists and Opticians Act. You will find the practice at 237 Serangoon Ave 3, #01-122, Singapore 550237.
Some shops come and go along the heartland streets of Serangoon. Nan Fang Optometrists is not one of them. For more than 55 years, this practice has provided primary eye care from 237 Serangoon Ave 3, built on a simple mission statement: Clear Vision, Healthy Eyes.
Step in and you will find registered optometrists working with advanced optometric instrumentation — but what regulars return for is the careful, unhurried approach. The practice's promise, "Effective Solutions for eyes with vision difficulties through Best Optics", reflects its breadth: this is a place where you can have your sight tested, screen for serious eye disease, slow a child's progressing myopia, or get to the bottom of dizziness that turns out to be an eye teaming problem.
The foundation of everything at Nan Fang is a careful refraction — the vision test that determines your prescription for spectacles or contact lenses. The optometrists stress that a good refraction should leave you seeing clearly without disturbing headaches or eyestrain, correcting the full range of refractive errors: astigmatism, myopia, hyperopia and age-related presbyopia.
For a fuller picture, the comprehensive eye examination goes well beyond the chart. It combines refraction with a detailed look at the anterior structures of the eye — the cornea and crystalline lens — and the light-sensitive retina at the back. That depth allows early detection of common ailments such as cataracts, diabetic retinopathy and age-related macular degeneration, before they put precious vision at risk.
Several services are built around early detection. Glaucoma, a chronic disease that slowly erodes side vision, is prevalent among those aged 40 and above and those with a family history — and the damage is irreversible, which is why screening matters. Diabetic retinopathy screening is recommended for all diabetic individuals at least once every two years; the practice cites research showing that while three in ten diabetics develop the condition, only 17% were detected early for preventive treatment. Age-related macular degeneration screening targets those 60 and above, with risk exacerbated by smoking, diabetes and high blood pressure.
Children get their own attention too. Eye screening for ages 7 to 16 helps monitor how quickly myopia is progressing and picks up early signs of binocular vision problems, cultivating good eye care habits from young.
One of Nan Fang's deepest areas of expertise is binocular vision — how the brain coordinates twelve eye muscles to fuse two images into one clear, comfortable picture. When that coordination slips, the result is Binocular Vision Dysfunction: headaches, dizziness, eyestrain, double vision and balance problems that can undermine reading, computer use, sports, and performance at school and work.
Conditions under this umbrella include convergence insufficiency, which makes close work like reading and smartphone use tiring and blurry; vertical heterophoria, a subtle vertical misalignment often misdiagnosed as migraines or inner ear disorders; and diplopia, or double vision. Because these problems are frequently missed in a normal eye examination, Nan Fang offers a dedicated Binocular Vision Eye Examination — a thorough one-to-two hour assessment of focusing, tracking and fusion abilities, by appointment only.
The good news is that these conditions are very treatable. The practice prescribes specialized lenses and prisms, and runs Vision Therapy: an optometrist-supervised, customized program of visual activities that retrains skills like convergence, focusing, eye tracking and eye-hand coordination. Citing the US National Eye Institute's Convergence Insufficiency Treatment Trial, Nan Fang notes that 75% of children with CI achieved full correction or significant improvement within 12 weeks of supervised vision therapy.
Singapore's myopia prevalence is notoriously high, and during the growing years a child's eyeball tends to elongate, pushing prescriptions up year by year. Nan Fang provides myopia control glasses proven to reduce myopia progression by 60%, alongside orthokeratology and specialized soft contact lenses — options the team walks parents through.
Rounding out the clinical work is a full dispensing service. The practice carries a wide range of spectacle frames from infants to adults, and prescribes a spectrum of contact lenses for children through to adults. One thing to note: under Singapore's Optometrists and Opticians Act, a mandatory eye examination and fitting session is required before contact lenses can be sold — so plan for that appointment.
Nan Fang Optometrists is at 237 Serangoon Ave 3, #01-122, Singapore 550237. Call 6283 4322 or email nanfangoptometrists@hotmail.com to arrange a visit — and remember to book ahead for binocular vision examinations, which run one to two hours by appointment only.