MOST ADVANCED EYE EXAM HAS LANDED

Hi-tech scan is able to identify problems much earlier to save your sight

Specsavers’ hospitalquality OCT (optical coherence tomography) scan can help detect treatable eye conditions such as macular degeneration sooner.

It can also help identify glaucoma up to four years in advance. This means conditions can be managed before they get worse and can prevent potential sight loss.

An OCT scan only takes a few seconds and allows your optician to look deeper into your eyes than ever before.

Thanks to the latest investment by Specsavers, OCT is now available in local communities across Scotland.

Sarah Freel, store director at Specsavers Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow, says: “This investment gives our team the ability to enhance the services to the local community by helping to detect and manage conditions, with a level of diagnostic capability that previously would have needed a hospital visit.

“We’re passionate about providing the best service to all customers, which is why we continue to invest in leading technology.”

An OCT scan uses light to take more than 1000 images of the back of your eye and beyond, looking right back to the optic nerve and creating a cross-section view.

You can imagine it like a cake – we 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 we can see all the layers inside.

It gives your optician an incredibly accurate picture of your eye and its structures, allowing them to check your eye health.

The images will be stored so they can note changes over time, which is a real benefit to monitoring someone’s overall eye health.