When you first walk into your primary care physician’s office for an annual exam, a nurse will likely greet you, go over your basic contact information, emergency contacts, any medications, etc., and then they’ll measure your height, weight, and blood pressure. They do this every single time!

For one thing, tracking your height, weight, and blood pressure over time allows your healthcare provider to understand what is normal for you and what changes may be a red flag. Your height, weight, and blood pressure also play a role in issues and concerns you might be having, so having that information at hand is essential in providing the best healthcare possible.

The same is true at your ophthalmologist, only your eye doctor is primarily focused on your eyes. Your height, weight, and blood pressure are always useful to know, but your eye doctor is interested in having a few other eye-specific diagnostics that will help them provide the best eye examination and diagnosis possible.

Eye Exam Pre-Screening

Optical Expressions uses three essential tools at the outset of every eye exam to gather the “height, weight, and blood pressure” of your eyes, and our next three blog posts are going to take a deep dive into each in turn.

The Autorefractor, Ocular Response Analyzer or Auto Tonometer, and the Confocal Retinal Imaging Laser are the three pillars of the eye examination pre-screening. Each tool takes specific measurements and provides specialized imaging and information that your eye doctor then uses to support the findings in the vision and complete eye exam to follow.

Eye Exams with Better Information

The comprehensive eye exams digs into everything from your visual acuity and focusing ability, the health and well-being of your eyes, and the early detection and treatment of any number of common vision conditions including nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, cataracts, macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and others.

To best evaluate the health of your eyes and the strength of your vision, provide the most precise diagnosis and determine the right vision prescription, and fit you with the best treatment plan or eyewear necessary, more information is always better!

The three tools used in your eye exam pre-screening are essential in providing vital information about the health, functionality, and physiology of your eyes. Look for the first installment in this three-part series next month starting with Autorefractors and find out about how your eyes bend light to create the world we see every day!

Eye Exam Pre-Screening Tools at Optical Expressions