A regular eye examination should be conducted at least once every two years. This is important to assess both your vision and the health of your eyes. Prevention can stop the majority of blindness. But once someone is blind there is no recovery.
Looking Smart Optometrists is also a therapeutically based practice that can prescribe drugs for our patients to help treat glaucoma, do foreign body removal and treat conjunctivitis.
| These are the tests that Looking Smart Optometrists perform to assess the health of your eyes and hopefully prevent eye disease. | |
Digital Fundus Photography |
This tests in a repeatable and accurate way to assess vision and the macula for checks on macula degeneration and general retinal function. |
| Medmont Visual Field Machine | This tests the ability of the eye to communicate information to the brain. Otherwise known as the peripheral vision test, this test is a definite indicator of glaucoma. |
| Case History | A comprehensive analysis of current ocular difficulties, medications, previous eye injuries problems and family history. This follows the Optometrists Association of Australia standards. |
| Un-aided Visual Acuity | How well the patient can see without glasses on. This is a good indicator of what prescription the optometrist should find as well as where the patient stands with regards to the visual requirements for driving. |
| Motility and Near Point of Convergence | This test determines how well the eyes move and are all six muscles controlling exterior movement working properly. Any one of these muscles not working efficiently can cause severe problems for the patient. |
| Pupil reactions | Pupils are the windows to the soul. A problem with their reactions can be related to anything from a brain tumour to lung problems. |
| Auto-Refraction | An automatic measuring device to obtain the prescription. This device shines a non-visible laser into the eye which measures the length and width of the eye. |
| Refraction | A double check of the presciption to make sure it works with both eyes rather than each eye separately. |
| Biomircroscopy | A microscopic evaluation of the front of the eye to check for diseases like cataracts and pterygiums. |
| Dilated Fundus Examination | Using 0.5% tropicamide we examine the back of the eye by dilating the pupil. If the pupil is dilated the optometrist can generally see 40% of the back of the eye in one go. Without dilating only 2% is visible. Thus without dilating the pupil, the optometrist may miss crucial eye diseases which can cause vision loss. |