State of the Art Eye Exam Instruments

Beyond Minimum Standard of Care Guidelines

Retinal Imaging / Visual Field Analysis

Retinal imaging allows us to get a high definition photo of your retina and blood vessels, as well as your optic nerve. Retinal imaging helps us establish a base line of your retinal structure and monitor changes over the years. Retinal imaging is an important component of your eye health record. Visual Field Analysis is another test that we regularly perform, used to detect central and peripheral vision problems that can be caused by glaucoma and other issues.

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Corneal Analysis

We use our corneal analyzer to examine the entire anterior segment of the eye. With the aid of this exam instructment our doctors can treat patients suffering from dry eye disease, perform specialty hard contact lens fittings, and analyze ortho-K contact lenses for our myopia control patients

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Optical coherence tomography (OCT)

During an eye examination, your doctor may detect ocular pathology such as glaucoma or Age-related macular degeneration. What's was seen by the doctor could be early warning signs or eye disease that has already started to progress. If something like this is discovered, we utilize in-house Optical coherence tomography or OCT for short. This is the next step in order to help diagnose, prevent, and monitor for progression of these conditions. Optical coherence tomography allows us to perform non-invasive testing to obtain cross-sectional pictures of your retinal nerve fiber layer. This technology is akin to an Ultra Sound or CT scan for the eyes. This allows us to get a better picture of what is occuring within your eyes and start a base-line for future retinal monitoring. This baseline will help determine if eye desease progression is occuring. OCT is the technology for the future because it can enhance patient care. Catching these eye diseases early can make a big different in treatment options. The state of Texas does not require this as part of an annual exam, but we feel this is an extremelty important factor in eye health managment and we strive to go beyond minimum standards.

The OCT has the ability to detect problems in the eye prior to any symptoms being present in the patient. With an OCT, doctors are able to see a cross section or 3D image of the retina and detect the early onset of a variety of eye conditions and eye diseases such as macular degeneration, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy (the top three diseases known to cause blindness). The OCT also allows for detection of other diseases such as macular holes, hypertensive retinopathy and even optic nerve damage. Using an OCT allows for early treatment in patients. Early treatment can dramatically improves the success of these treatments, especially in diseases such as wet macular degeneration – where the eye disease progresses rapidly. The OCT scan is non-invasive, painless, and takes less than 3 minutes to be performed.