Advanced OCT Eye Examination

3D Advanced Eye Exam

Our new state of the art 3D OCT scanner can offer you the ultimate in eye examinations, using equipment that is not readily available at many opticians. Using our state of the art Optical Coherence Tomographer we can produce a 3D image of your eye. This allows us to observe and compare cell changes that could affect your sight, up to five years before any signs or symptoms are obvious.

We check closely for changes that could indicate the beginning of conditions such as Age-related Macular Degeneration, Glaucoma and Diabetic Retinopathy, which many patients worry about as they get older.

Early detection has the potential to save your sight, and even your life, by providing diagnostic information in time for treatment to be successful.

This highly useful technology is normally seen only in top eye hospitals. You can now benefit from significantly improved diagnostic techniques that can spot dangerous eye conditions up to 5 years sooner than previously possible.

The Optical Coherence Tomographer (OCT) allows us to take 3-dimensional scans of the back and front of your eyes, rather like an MRI scanner does for the rest of the body. The procedure is comfortable and the image captured in seconds using optical scanning and flash photography – nothing touches your eyes.

The images show exceptional detail and show changes that are too small to be seen by the eye. The OCT allows you to be aware of changes in your eyes before any symptoms appear, giving you advanced warning and early intervention.

What are the Benefits?

A permanent and extremely accurate record can be kept of the condition of your eyes.
Detection of changes too small to be seen even using Retinal Photography can be picked up and compared year on year against previous 3D scans.
Allows you to see what we see and to understand any changes taking place (this will all be explained to you).
Allows precise diagnostic levels of detail ensuring timely, accurate referral to a consultant surgeon should that be necessary.

Who should have OCT?

Everyone who wants the best available eye care but particularly:

• All those over 40.
• Family history of eye problems.
• Diabetics even if already in a screening service.
• General health problems that may affect the eyes.
• Anyone who has an abnormality detected using any other method.

How is this an Improvement over Retinal Photography?

The OCT takes a 3D scan of the eye so we can look through the surface at the cross-section of layers below, which we have never been able to see before now and magnify them to ensure that they are as they should be. A retinal photograph is also taken at the same time which is of a higher quality than a normal retinal image. We can measure and therefore monitor the thickness of all the key layers within the back of the eye so that we can pick up changes in thickness even when they look normal.