Our office is one of the first eye care practices in the area to offer its patients the Optomap™ Panoramic200™ Retinal Imaging System retinal exam. This revolutionary modality captures and analyzes an image of virtually the entire retina without dilation, for the early detection and management of eye disease. As a result, you will not experience blurred vision or sensitivity to light following your eye exam. (Dilation results in thirty minutes of waiting and 3 or more hours of blurred vision). Since Optos first introduced the Optomap exam, nearly 250,000 exams have been conducted worldwide, diagnosing serious eye conditions – such as diabetic retinopathy, retinal detachments and macular generation – that could have otherwise gone undetected.

Obtaining Optomap retinal images is comfortable, quick and very simple. By looking into an eyepiece, at the push of a button, the digital image of the retina is captured in less than a second, with a small flash indicating the image has been taken. Nothing touches your eye during the process. Your Optomap retinal image is then immediately displayed for us to review with you. Experience with this technology has already led to improved disease detection and has possibly prevented vision loss and blindness in several patients.

The Optomap increases the quality of the retinal exam by allowing us to view almost the entire retina at the start of the exam, which can have important implications, not only for detecting eye disease, but also in detecting and managing other medical conditions such as diabetes. The Optomap retinal exam is a simple, quick and important way to maintain good eye health.

With Optomap® Retinal Examination the majority of the retina is visible in one single image

Due to its clinical, patient and practice benefits, the Optomap retinal exam has the potential to become part of the standard of care in practices throughout the world. In addition to its many clinical and patient benefits, the Optomap also allows doctors to spend more time with patients, and provides a permanent photo-documentation that can be sent to a patient’s primary care physician or specialist if needed and can also be used to educate patients.

Various studies have concluded that the Optomap exam, is effective in increasing the quality of a clinical evaluation of the retina in a primary eye care setting; is a reliable tool for the detection of retinal disease; and has sensitivity similar to the current gold standard - clinical evaluation through a dilated pupil. This study also concluded that the Optomap exam detected three times more retinal abnormalities than a clinical evaluation through an undilated pupil. A separate study sponsored by the American Optometric Association in 2000 showed that 52% of patients presenting for an eye exam are NOT dilated.

More About Optos

The Optos modality was developed as a patient-friendly examination tool by Douglas Anderson, founder and vice chairman, Optos, after his son Leif lost the use of an eye when a retinal detachment was detected too late.  It incorporates the latest in scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) technology, using low-powered red-green laser beams to capture an image of virtually the entire retina on an "Optomap", a permanent digital record that gives clinicians a view of the retina that is unprecedented with prior technologies.

To find out more about the Optomap Exam – visit www.optomap.com