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The teams at Specsavers Donegal Town and Letterkenny are committed to providing the community with access to the latest optical technology as well as in-store expertise from knowledgeable, professional optometrists.
The stores have invested in hospital-quality equipment that can help detect treatable eye conditions sooner. They rely on an Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) scanner – a cutting-edge piece of equipment that allows opticians to view the eye in more detail than ever before.
State-of-the-art Optical Technology
Part of Specsavers’ commitment to providing its customers with access to the very latest optical technology, OCT is a cutting-edge, hospital-quality piece of equipment that allows opticians to view the eye in more detail than ever before. OCT provides a quick, non-contact and painless way to detect treatable eye conditions – such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma – much sooner than a regular eye test and can in fact detect some conditions up to four years in advance. What’s more, a customer’s OCT images are stored on file, so Specsavers optometrists can monitor any changes to the eye over time.
Optical Coherence Tomography Scan
The OCT scan is in addition to a thorough eye test, during which the optometrist uses a range of clinical tests and procedures to measure the quality of someone’s vision and the health of their eyes. An OCT scan, which only takes a few seconds, uses light to take more than 1,000 images of the back of your eye and beyond, looking right back to the optic nerve and creating a cross-section view. Imagine the eye like a cake – you can see the top of the cake and the icing, but the image produced from an OCT scan slices the cake in half and turns it on its side, so you can see all the layers inside. It gives your optician an incredibly accurate picture of the eye and its structures.
It is used for a variety of functions including screening and management of conditions such as age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy.
The 3D scanning technology produces a structural scan of the eye, including layers of the eye that would not normally be visible using traditional eye testing techniques. The results are similar to an ultrasound or MRI scan, in that it creates multiple scan slice images that are built up to form a total image. The OCT machine uses a totally safe, laser light source and not x-ray-type radiation.
Specsavers Donegal Town optometrist director, Eddie Dolan.
Speaking about the optical technology available in store, Specsavers Donegal Town optometrist director, Eddie Dolan (above) says: ‘This innovative technology gives our team the ability to enhance the offering for customers by identifying and helping to detect or manage conditions, with a level of diagnostic capability which previously would have required a hospital visit.’
Specsavers Letterkenny optometrist director, John Fleming added: ‘OCT technology produces such a detailed picture of the structures in the eye that it allows us to identify signs of diseases years earlier than traditional methods. The sooner we can detect conditions, the sooner we can help manage them or refer people for treatment.’
For more information on the services available at Specsavers Donegal Town or Letterkenny, pop in store or call 0749715032 / 074 989 4008 or visit https://www.specsavers.ie/stores/donegaltown / https://www.specsavers.ie/stores/letterkenny
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