Dr. Satnick has stopped using the dreaded “air-puff test” to measure intraocular pressure for what some people call the “glaucoma” test. Fortunately, we now have the iCare tonometer to measure without shooting a puff of air into your eye or using numbing drops.

 

The iCare tonometer consists of a handle with a tiny white plastic ball that is brought very close to the eye. Then it taps on the cornea faster than a blink. The patient only feels a quick tickle, if anything.. That’s especially helpful with young children. Since I started using the iCare tonometer in, I haven’t had any patients that couldn’t do it.

 

Since patients with glaucoma frequently do not have symptoms until significant damage has occurred, it is important to receive regular comprehensive eye exams where we also take into consideration medical history and risk factors along with the assessment of the optic nerve, drainage structures of the eye, corneal thickness, visual fields (a measure of your peripheral vision) and stereo photos

 

If it has been over a year since your last comprehensive eye exam please call Dr. Satnick 858-566-1756, to schedule an appointment today.

 

The Zeiss i.Profiler is a revolutionary way of fine tuning Dr. Satnick's prescription

The i-Profiler eye measuring system from Zeiss analyses the shape of the eye with extreme precision. The system’s Wavefront images, developed on laser eye treatment technology, measures the cornea shape in fine detail. The machine shoots a wave of light into the eye, which passes through cornea, pupil, lens, vitreous jelly then the retina at the back of the eye, where the image is focused. The light then reflects back to the machine which is able to detect and graphically represent what has happened to that wave of light, caused by distortion of the cornea.