COMPREHENSIVE EYE EXAMS

ADULT & SENIOR EYE EXAMS

Regular eye exams for adults and seniors are a crucial aspect of preventative eye care. Contrary to popular belief, a comprehensive eye exam involves more than just determining a prescription for glasses or contact lenses. Your optometrist is trained to detect any early signs of ocular diseases that could potentially impact your vision quality, either immediately or further down the road. One of the key challenges with many vision changes and ocular diseases is that they tend to progress slowly and without any pain, making it difficult for individuals to recognize that anything is amiss.

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EYE CARE OPTOMETRY IN SOUTH EDMONTON

At Trifecta Optometry, we provide comprehensive eye care services in South Edmonton. Our experienced eye optometry team is dedicated to ensuring your vision health through personalized care, advanced eye exams, and modern treatments. Whether you need a routine check-up or specialized eye care, we are here to help you maintain healthy vision.

A TRUSTED EYE DOCTOR IN SOUTH EDMONTON

Are you looking for a reliable eye doctor in South Edmonton? Trifecta Optometry offers a welcoming eye care clinic environment and expert care for all your vision needs. Visit us today for professional eye exams and customized eye care solutions.

DIAGNOSTIC TECHNOLOGY

At Trifecta Optometry, we believe to serve you best as your optometrist, we must have the latest technology to help us do our job well. We have invested in state of the art technology to provide the quality of care for our patients.

(Non Contact Tonometry/Non Contact Pachymetry/Autorefractor/Autokeratometer)

This is a multimodal instrument that provides important objective measurements for the optometrist. The autorefractor provides an objective starting point for a patient's refractive error (prescription). The autokeratometer provides the anterior curvature of the corneal tissue. The non contact tonometry measures a patient's intraocular pressure. The non contact pachymetry measures the central thickness of the cornea.

Nidek TONOREF(TM) III

This portable handheld tonometer offers a modern and reliable option to measure intraocular pressures with ease and with minimal discomfort for the patient. Local anesthesia is not necessary and is an ideal tool for both screening and monitoring for glaucoma. At Trifecta Optometry, we can offer this in place of the dreaded 'air puff test'.

iCare IC100 Tonometer

Certain eye diseases affect a person's peripheral vision before it causes central vision loss and is often painless. The Zeiss Humphrey Matrix Frequency Doubling Technology (FDT) provides rapid screening testing for the detection of visual field loss.

Visual Field Screening

The images taken become a body of work for our patients to photodocument the appearance of the retina over time - this is a standard of care for all our patients coming in for a comprehensive eye examination. At Trifecta Optometry, we have the iCare EIDON that provides the first TruColor Confocal imaging device for ultra-high resolution widefield imaging up to 200 degrees of the retina. This technology provides guaranteed image sharpness, better optical resolution, higher details and greater contrast to help the optometrist diagnose disease promptly.

Retinal Photography

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Taking a step further, we go deeper into the layers of the retina by way of the Zeiss CIRRUS HD-Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). This is a non-invasive scan that creates a cross-sectional image of the major structures of the retina to screen for subclinical changes. Common conditions screened for include glaucoma, optic neuropathy, macular degeneration, diabetic eye disease, and macular holes. At Trifecta Optometry, we have also invested in the Anterior Segment Premier Module that expands the capabilities of the HD-OCT. This allows for the measurement of corneal epithelial thickness maps, high definition corneal imaging and anterior chamber depths and angle.

Retinal Imaging

As a leading Dry Eye Centre in Edmonton, Trifecta Optometry considers meibography imaging of the lower eyelids as standard of care screening for Dry Eye Disease at your Comprehensive Eye Examination. The dysfunction of the meibomian glands is the most frequent cause of Dry Eye Disease. With meibography, we are able to use infrared imaging to visualize the state of the meibomian glands to detect morphological changes to the tissue.

Meibography Screening

EYE EXAMINATION

Once you have completed the diagnostic testing and pre-test screening portion with the optometric assistant, your optometrist will take the information to complement the rest of the comprehensive eye examination.

INITIAL CONVERSATION

The case history is an important aspect to a comprehensive eye examination. It aids in understanding the main concerns of the patient and focuses the energy and direction of the examination for efficiency. Your optometrist will also review your personal and family medical and ocular history including current medications and allergies. Many ocular diseases are connected to health conditions as well as having a hereditary factor as well.

VISION ASSESSMENT, BINOCULAR VISION TESTING, AND BEST CORRECTED VISUAL ACUITY

Your optometrist will establish your visual acuity baseline unaided or with your current vision correction. Other auxiliary testing including binocular vision, eye muscle movement, neurological function, and colour vision will be assessed as well. The phoropter will then be used to determine your refractive error (prescription) to provide you with the best vision used in prescription spectacles and contact lenses.

OCULAR HEALTH

Using the slit lamp, your optometrist will perform biomicroscopy to assess the anterior and posterior health of your eyes to assist in early detection of any abnormalities and to screen for silent eye diseases such as glaucoma and cataracts. Numerous ocular conditions are asymptomatic early in the disease process and can many times uncover underlying health conditions.

PATIENT EDUCATION

At Trifecta Optometry, we place the most value on this portion of the comprehensive eye examination because we take all the testing that has been performed and provide the full ocular status for the patient. It does not matter if everything is healthy or if additional