Comprehensive Eye Exam

What Our Eye Examination Includes

Every comprehensive eye test at IrisCare follows a thorough, step-by-step process. Nearly all of it is completely painless, and your optometrist will explain each stage as you go.

• Patient History & Symptoms Review: We start by understanding your vision concerns, lifestyle, medical history and any family history of eye disease. This guides the rest of the examination.
• Visual Acuity Testing: The familiar letter chart. It measures how clearly you see at distance and near.
• Refraction: This determines your exact prescription for glasses or contact lenses, using both computerised and manual methods for accuracy.
• Cover Test & Eye Alignment: Checks how well your eyes work together and detects any tendency to drift or strain.
• Pupil Response Examination: A quick light check that assesses how your pupils react, which canflag neurological issues.
• Slit Lamp Examination: A specialised microscope that lets your optometrist examine the front structures of the eye cornea, lens and lids in fine detail.
• Tonometry (Eye Pressure Test): Measures the pressure inside your eye, an important screening step for glaucoma. It is quick and painless.
• Ophthalmoscopy / Fundoscopy: Examines the retina and optic nerve at the back of the eye, where many diseases first appear.
• Retinoscopy: An objective way to estimate your prescription, especially useful for children and
  patients who find subjective testing difficult.
• Colour Vision Testing: Identifies colour vision deficiencies, which matter for certain jobs and for children’s development.
• Keratometry: Measures the curvature of your cornea, essential for accurate contact lens fitting.
• Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT): Where indicated. A detailed scan of the retinal layers that can reveal disease earlier than the eye alone.
• Visual Field Analysis: Where indicated. Maps your peripheral vision to detect blind spots linked to glaucoma and other conditions.