Diabetic Eye Exams in San Mateo, San Jose, San Ramon, & Juneau

Much like a regular eye exam, our eye doctors will check your visual acuity with an eye chart during your diabetic eye exam. Diabetes has the potential to cause several changes inside your eyes that can potentially harm the visual clarity of your eyes. A visual acuity test will help determine what those changes are and clarify what the proper approach for treatment will be.

Fundoscopy describes an examination of the back of the eyeball. The tests in this portion of a diabetic eye exam will explore the area of the eye where your retina and optic nerve are located.

One of our optometrists will examine the back of your eyeball with one or more of the following procedures:

• Direct ophthalmoscope—By using a hand-held instrument with a bright light, your optometrist will accurately assess if there are any issues with the back of your eye.
• Indirect ophthalmoscope—This test involves a mounted light and a lens working in tandem to help provide your optometrist with a much wider-angle view of the back of your eye.
• Slit-lamp ophthalmoscopy—This test will utilize a slit lamp. Your optometrist will use this device to generate a highly magnified, 3D view of the back of your eye, including the retina and optic nerve.

Fundus photography will also be used to examine the back of your eyeball by taking a high-resolution photo with the state-of-the-art Optos Silverstone. These photos, along with the fundoscopy, will give our optometrists a complete picture of what specific issues your diabetes may be causing to the back of your eye.

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive imaging test that uses light waves to take cross-section pictures of your retina.

With OCT, our doctors can see each of the retina’s ten distinctive layers. This allows them to map and measure their thickness and help with diagnosis and treatment plans for diabetic retinopathy.

Optical Illusions uses the Optos Silverstone and Topcon Maestro2, the gold standard and most advanced OCT device available today.

People with diabetes and high blood pressure have a greater risk of developing blocked blood vessels in the optic nerve and retina. They may need visual field testing to monitor any effects of these conditions on their vision.

Optical Illusions uses the Virtual Field AR Headset, a modern and comfortable perimetry device to measure your visual fields.