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Protect Your Vision with Diabetic Eye Exams

Diabetes is a systemic condition that impacts every part of your body, including your eyes. It’s essentially to manage diabetes to help protect your eye health and vision. Let our team at Riverton Vision Center help.

We use various diagnostic technologies, such as optical coherence tomography (OCT), optos retinal imaging, and fundus photography, to help us detect and treat diabetes-related vision issues early.

If you have diabetes, we recommend you have an annual comprehensive eye exam so we can monitor your eyes for changes caused by your condition.

Contact us to schedule your next diabetic eye exam today.

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The Importance of Regular Eye Exams

Diabetes can significantly increase your risk of developing serious eye conditions like diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma. Early detection is key to preserving your vision.

Our comprehensive eye exams go beyond standard checks to identify potential issues using advanced diagnostic technology. By closely monitoring your eye health, we can help prevent vision loss and maintain your quality of life.

How Diabetes Can Affect Your Vision

Different conditions can affect your vision in different ways, including affecting your ability to perform day-to-day tasks like reading and driving. These conditions include:

Diabetic macular edema
Diabetic retinopathy
Cataracts
Glaucoma

Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of vision loss among people with diabetes. Diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma don’t typically exhibit symptoms until they are more advanced, making regular eye exams crucial in detecting and treating them early.

What Is Diabetic Retinopathy?

Diabetic retinopathy is a serious eye condition caused by long-term high blood sugar levels. When you have diabetes, excess sugar builds up in your blood and can damage tiny blood vessels throughout your body, including those in the retina, the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye.

These delicate blood vessels can become blocked, leak fluid, or even bleed, leading to vision problems.

Diabetic retinopathy often progresses without noticeable symptoms, but common signs can include:

Blurry vision
Dark spots or floaters
Difficulty seeing at night
Vision loss

Our Approach to Diabetic Eye Care

During your comprehensive eye exam, we thoroughly assess your overall eye health. This includes checking your visual acuity, eye pressure, and pupil response.

We also carefully review your general health, including your blood sugar levels and blood pressure, as these factors significantly impact your eye health.

To provide an accurate diagnosis, we use advanced diagnostic technology to examine the internal structures of your eye in detail.

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)

OCT is a noninvasive imaging technique that uses light waves to take cross-sectional images of the retina, optic nerve, and cornea, allowing us to detect abnormalities or changes in these delicate structures, which can be early signs of diabetic eye disease.

Fundus Photography

Fundus photography is an important tool for detecting and monitoring diabetic retinopathy.
This noninvasive procedure captures detailed images of the retina and helps us identify early signs of diabetic retinopathy and other eye diseases.

Optos Retinal Imaging

Optos imaging captures a wide-angle view of your retina, allowing our team to detect potential eye problems early, including diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, glaucoma, and other retinal diseases.