Optomap Retinal Exam

Name: Family Eye Care of O'Fallon
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Ultra-widefield Retinal Imaging System

Optomap Retinal Exam

Ultra-widefield Retinal Imaging System

Family Eye Care Utilizes State-of-the-Art Optomap Technology

Your retina, located in the back of your eye, is the only place in the body where blood vessels can be seen directly. This means that in addition to eye conditions, signs of other diseases including Stroke, Heart Disease, Hypertension, Glaucoma, Macular Degeneration, Diabetes, and even Cancer can also be seen in the retina.

Early signs of these conditions can show on your retina long before you notice any changes to your vision or feel pain. While eye exams generally include a look at the front of the eye to evaluate health and prescription changes, a thorough screening of the retina is critical to verify that your eye is healthy.

What is an Optomap?

The Optomap ultra-widefield retinal image is a unique technology that captures more than 80% of your retina in one panoramic image while traditional imaging methods typically only show 15% of your retina at one time.

What are the Benefits of an Optomap?

The benefits of having an Optomap ultra-widefield retinal image taken are:

Early protection from vision impairment or blindness
Early detection of life-threatening diseases like cancer, stroke and cardiovascular disease

The unique Optomap ultra-widefield view helps your eye care practitioner detect early signs of retinal disease more effectively and efficiently than with traditional eye exams

Early detection means successful treatments may be administered and may reduce the risk to your sight and health.

Our Optomap Policy

The doctors of Family Eye Care of O’Fallon trust and rely upon the comprehensive imagery provided by the Optomap so much so that Family Eye Care of O’Fallon has made the investment to bring the technology in-house.

Each new-patient comprehensive exam now receives a FREE Optomap Retinal Image as part of the exam. There is no additional charge to the patient. This allows our doctors to establish a baseline for your eye health.

On subsequent annual visits, the doctors of Family Eye Care encourage a new Optomap for comparison, although it is not required. On these visits there is a small out-of-pocket fee that is charged to the patient for the images. If the Optomap imagery shows signs of a medical issue, then the cost of the Optomap imagery may be covered by insurance.

All Optomap images are incorporated into your Electronic Heath Record and are made available to your Family Eye Care doctor in the exam room.

Optomap Frequently Asked Questions

Why is a retinal exam so important?

Some of the first signs of diseases such as stroke, diabetes and even some cancers can be seen in your retina, often before you have other symptoms. An Optomap makes it easier to see them.

What is an Optomap?

The Optomap is a panoramic digital image of the retina produced by Optos scanning laser technology. It is the only technology that can show a wide 82% view of your retina at one time.

How will Optomap benefit me?

An Optomap’s wide view of the retina may help your eye doctor detect problems more quickly and easily. Unlike traditional retinal exams, the Optomap image can be saved for future comparisons.

Are there side effects?

Optomap images are created by non-invasive, low-intensity scanning lasers. No adverse effects have been reported in over 39 million sessions.

Is an Optomap safe for children?

Yes. In fact, many vision problems begin in early childhood, so it’s important for children to receive quality routine eye care.

Does it hurt?

No. It is completely comfortable and the scan takes less than a second.

How often should I have an Optomap?

This is a decision that should be made by your doctor. However, it is generally recommended that you have an Optomap each time you have an eye exam.

Early detection

Is essential to reduce
the risk to your sight and health!

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What our patients are saying

All of the staff are very friendly and helpful. Office is completely accessible. Dr. Kloke was very patient when examining my special-needs daughter. Would highly recommend Family Eye Care to others.

Ashley TimmermannDemandforce Certified Patient

The Drs and staff worked so well with my daughter. She had something stuck in her eye and was very scared. The Dr did a great job of calming her and getting the debris out from behind her eyelid.