Wellness  package  for  retinal  screening:  $49.00
​(includes  Optos  retinal  imaging  and  OCT  scanning)

OPTOS  RETINAL  IMAGING -

Digital retinal imaging uses high-resolution imaging systems to take pictures of the inside of your eye. This helps our doctors assess the health of your retina and helps them to detect and manage such eye and health conditions as diabetes, glaucoma, and macular degeneration. Finding retinal disorders as early as possible is critical to potentially preventing serious disease progression and even vision loss. 

Here are just some of the diseases retinal imaging can help a VSP network doctor notice or see more closely: 

• Age-related Macular Degeneration - Macular degeneration is usually signified by leaking of fluid or bleeding in the back of the eye. This causes central vision loss.  
• Cancer - A dark spot at the back of the eye may signal a melanoma, which can grow unnoticed within the retina. If caught early, melanomas can be treated before they cause serious damage and travel to other areas of the body through the bloodstream. 
• Diabetic Retinopathy - Diabetes can cause changes in the blood vessels of the retina, like swelling and leakage or the creation of new blood vessels. Blindness can result without early detection.  
• Glaucoma - Pressure against the optic nerve and compression of the eye’s blood vessels may indicate glaucoma. This disease causes permanent and irreversible vision loss. 
• Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) - Signs of high blood pressure often appear first in the eye. Indicators can include narrowing of the blood vessels, spots on the retina, or bleeding in the back of the eye. 
• Retinal Detachment - Retinas can lift or pull away from the wall of the eye. If not properly treated, this can cause permanent vision loss. 
• Multiple Sclerosis - This autoimmune disease causes inflammation of the optic nerve, known as optic neuritis. This disease can permanently affect eyesight. 

OPTICAL  COHERENCE  tOMOGRaphy (oct)  SCANNING-

​Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive imaging test. OCT uses light waves to take cross-section pictures of your retina. An OCT scan can help our doctors to see what’s going on beneath the surface of your eye, providing a picture of the layers of your retina. This allows our doctors to map and measure their thickness. These measurements help with diagnosis. They also provide treatment guidance for glaucoma and diseases of the retina. The optic nerve head is also visible at the back of your eye, so an OCT scan can also evaluate any disorders of the optic nerve.

These retinal diseases include age-related macular degeneration and diabetic eye disease.