Technology provides better evaluation of the human eye
HRT3 Laser Ophthalmoscopy ans Spectralis OCT with BluePeak
Laser ophthalmoscopy provides our doctors the ability to see your optic nerve, retinal blood vessels, and surrounding retinal tissue in
3-D. The HRT3 and Spectralis OCT use multiple colored lasers to scan different layers of the retina and optic nerve to create a true 3 dimensional representation of the tissues inside the eye. Laser ophthalmoscopy is crucial in monitoring and managing glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retina disease. Our doctors urge our patients who are at risk for glaucoma, macular degeneration, and diabetic eye disease to be scanned by the HRT3 or Spectralis OCT at your next visit.
Spectralis OCT Retina Scan
The Spectralis OCT scans the retina with mulitple colored lasers
that allows our doctors and staff the see each individual layer of the retina and optic nerve to better diagnose eye disease.
Digital Retinal Photography
Retinal photography assists the optometrists at Florence Eye Center in identifying eye health problems as well as manifestations of systemic disease or medications in the eyes. Retinal photography also aids our doctors in monitoring progression of eye diseases. Because our retinal cameras are digital, we are able to see the condition of your eyes immediately. Retinal photography is an essential tool to monitor patients who have diabetes, glaucoma, macular degeneration as well as those who take medications like plaquenil that can damage the retina. 
Corneal Pachymetry
Corneal pachymetry is a measurement of the thickness of the cornea. In general, the normal human cornea measures approximately 540 microns thick centrally and a full millimeter thick peripherally.
Eyecare practitioners customarily order corneal pachymetry when a patient's diseased cornea is edematous or ectatic. They also use it before LASIK to help plan the photoablation.
However, a recent study (the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study) revealed that corneal thickness plays a significant role in glaucoma detection. Patients of certain races and those who have moderate to high myopia tend to have thinner corneas. When these patients also have glaucoma or are glaucoma suspect, treatment by the physician may vary depending on the pachymetry readings.
Applanation tonometry of an unusually thin cornea results in a false reading that's lower than the actual IOP because the resistance of the corneal tissue to indentation is less than expected. The reverse is also true: Thick corneas yield false high readings. Experts have developed conversion formulas that mathematically "adjust" the IOP for an eye with a thin cornea.