Early Detection & Treatment for Eye Disease
At Chestermere Optometry, safeguarding your vision and eye health is our top priority. Our eye disease management services are designed to detect, monitor, and treat a wide range of eye conditions, such as glaucoma, macular degeneration, and more, before they affect your vision and quality of life.
Many eye diseases can develop without warning signs or symptoms, so an eye exam is crucial to maintaining visual health. With our diagnostic technology and a personalized approach, we can make a difference.
Do not let eye disease catch you off guard—contact us to schedule your next appointment today.
Preventive Eye Care
Each patient’s eyes are unique, which is why we tailor our diagnosis and treatment plans to suit your individual needs.
Our team takes the time to explain your diagnosis and help you fully understand your treatment options, whether it is managing a chronic condition or preventing vision loss. Early detection through routine comprehensive eye exams can make all the difference in managing eye diseases.
Our Diagnostic Technology
To get the full picture when it comes to your eye health, we use different diagnostic technologies to get accurate, reliable results.
Our diagnostic tools include:
- Visual field testing: This test measures your peripheral vision and helps detect conditions like glaucoma, optic nerve damage, or neurological conditions.
- Optomap retinal imaging: Optomap provides a comprehensive, ultra-wide digital image of the retina, capturing more than 80% of it in a single scan. This allows us to detect early signs of eye diseases such as macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinal tears, and even certain cancers.
Common Eye Diseases & Conditions
Our patients can come to us with various issues, and patient education is a big part of what we do. Eye diseases and other conditions can affect eye health and vision in various ways, with different symptoms and causes.
By exploring different eye diseases and conditions, we can make you aware of some early warning signs. This can help you understand your risks for certain conditions and learn why regular eye exams are important.
Early detection and management through regular eye exams can make a big difference in protecting your long-term visual health.
Cataracts are the gradual clouding of your eye’s natural lens with age, leading to blurry vision, faded colours, and difficulty seeing at night. Cataracts develop over time, quite naturally, due to aging, but several risk factors exist that could increase your chances of developing them at an earlier age, like:
- Family history of cataracts
- Smoking
- Excessive alcohol consumption
- Overexposure to UV light
- Side effects from medications or diseases
- Eye injury
Cataract surgery is a safe and common procedure to replace the clouded lens with a clear artificial lens, helping restore vision.
Glaucoma is a group of diseases that progressively damage your optic nerve. Called “the silent thief of sight,” glaucoma develops gradually, eventually resulting in vision loss. Many patients do not notice any symptoms until the advanced stages of this condition.
The key to managing glaucoma is an early diagnosis and swift treatment. Numerous risk factors can heighten your likelihood of developing this condition, such as:
- Elevated eye pressure
- Older age
- Myopia
- Diabetes
- Family history
Your annual eye exam can help us diagnose glaucoma in its early stages before any vision loss occurs.
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) affects the macula, the central part of the retina responsible for sharp central vision.
AMD has 2 primary forms, dry and wet:
- Dry AMD is more common and generally less severe than wet AMD. Dry AMD occurs when drusen (small lipid deposits) accumulate underneath the macula.
- Wet AMD progresses quickly, causing new blood vessels to form under the macula. However, these new blood vessels are relatively weak, leaking blood and other fluids, which can permanently damage the macula.
Wet AMD can be treated using intraocular injections, which may halt progression, but vision loss from this condition cannot be reversed.
Diabetes can damage blood vessels in the retina, leading to a variety of vision problems, including:
- Diabetic retinopathy, a condition where damaged blood vessels in the retina cause vision impairment.
- Diabetic macular edema, the swelling of the macula due to fluid leakage from these damaged vessels, leading to blurred vision.
Regular eye exams are essential for people with diabetes to monitor their eye health and prevent vision loss. We work closely with your primary care physician to help with comprehensive diabetic care and managing your eye health in conjunction with your overall diabetes management plan.
Conjunctivitis is the inflammation of the conjunctiva, the transparent tissue covering the inner eyelids and whites of your eyes. This inflammation causes the blood vessels in the conjunctiva to become more visible, leading to eye redness.
There are 3 types of conjunctivitis:
- Viral conjunctivitis can result in watery discharge and redness.
- Bacterial conjunctivitis is characterized by yellow or greenish discharge and redness.
- Allergic conjunctivitis can lead to itching, redness, and watery eyes.
Minor cases can improve within 2 weeks, but for more serious cases, we recommend you visit us for treatment.
Trust Chestermere Optometry with Your Eye Health
Your vision is one of your most valuable assets. At Chestermere Optometry, we are committed to helping you preserve it.
With our dedicated care, technology, and personalized approach, you can trust us to provide care for all your eye disease diagnosis and management needs. Contact us to schedule your appointment today.
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We are located in Chestermere Station near the Safeway. There is plenty of parking outside the clinic.
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- Phone: 403-229-2020
- Fax: 403-229-2032
- Email: [email protected]
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- 110–175 Chestermere Station Way
- Chestermere, AB T1X 0A4
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Enhancing Eye Care with Innovative Technology
We are always seeking ways to help enhance your patient experience and care levels. Our commitment to innovative technology has led us to introduce 3 new diagnostic technologies:
- Optos Monaco can capture detailed digital retina images in one scan, aiding in the early detection of potential eye conditions.
- Olleyes VR Virtual Field uses immersive technology for peripheral vision evaluation.
- Huvitz HTR is an efficient 4-in-1 device that combines refraction, corneal curvature and thickness, eye pressure, and meibomian gland imaging (dry eye assessment).
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- 110–175 Chestermere Station Way
- Chestermere, AB T1X 0A4
- Phone: 403-229-2020
- Fax: 403-229-2032
- Email: [email protected]