Treatments

Chalazion Surgery

Surgery to treat chalazion is an office procedure that takes about 15 to 20 minutes to perform. We inject a numbing agent into the eyelid and make a small incision in the bump. We will then drain the fluid and remove the material collected within the nodule. Typically, no stitches are required.

Eye Tumor Surgery

There are various ways to treat eye tumors, depending on the diagnosis, size and aggressiveness of the tumor, and other factors. Certain small tumors may respond to laser treatment or freezing (cryosurgery). In some instances, it is possible to remove a tumor surgically and still preserve vision. A technique advanced by Wilmer researchers fine-tunes radiation therapy for eye tumors, focusing it more precisely on the eye.

Pterygium Surgery

Pterygium surgery is a procedure performed to remove noncancerous conjunctiva growths (pterygia) from the eye. The conjunctiva is the clear tissue covering the white part of the eye and the inside of the eyelids. Some cases of a pterygium produce little to no symptoms.

Entropion Surgery

Entropion repair is an outpatient procedure that typically only requires local anesthesia and a mild sedative. Depending on the exact needs of the patient, entropion repair may involve the removal of a small section of the eyelid or a skin graft to help reposition the eyelid.

Glaucoma Surgery

The most common type of surgery for glaucoma is called trabeculectomy. It involves removing part of the eye-drainage tubes to allow fluid to drain more easily. Glaucoma surgery may be carried out under local or general anaesthetics.

Gonioscopy Examination

Gonioscopy is a painless examination to see whether the area where fluid drains out of the eye is open or closed. It is often done during a regular eye examination, depending on age and whether or not the patient is at a high risk for glaucoma.

Eye Pressure Examination

Tonometry is a quick and simple test that checks the pressure inside the eyes. The results can help our doctors see if our patient is at risk for glaucoma.

Eyeglass Examination

An eye exam involves a series of tests to evaluate vision and check for eye diseases. Our doctors are likely to use various instruments, i.e. shine bright lights at the eyes and request that patients look through an array of lenses. Each test during an eye exam evaluates a different aspect of their vision or eye health.

Colorblindness Examination

A color vision test, also known as the Ishihara color test, measures our patient’s ability to tell the difference among colors. If they don’t pass this test, they may have poor color vision, or our doctors may tell them that they’re color blind.

Eye USG Examination

An eye and orbit ultrasound is a test to look at the eye area. It also measures the size and structures of the eye.

Fundus Photography Examination

Fundus photography is the process of taking serial photographs of the interior of the eye through the pupil. A fundus camera is a specialized low-power microscope attached to a camera used to examine structures such as the optic disc, retina, and lens.

OCT Angiography Examination

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive imaging test. OCT uses light waves to take cross-section pictures of the retina. With OCT, our ophthalmologists can see each of the retina’s distinctive layers. This allows our ophthalmologists to map and measure their thickness.

HVFA Examination

Humphrey visual field analyser (HVFA) is a tool for measuring the human visual field that is commonly used by optometrists, orthoptists and ophthalmologists, particularly for detecting monocular visual field.

YAG Laser

The YAG laser is the laser used to clear the frosting from the back surface of an intraocular lens. YAG laser treatment is painless and is completed from outside the eye in a few minutes. During YAG laser treatment your eye doctor may use a magnifying contact lens to help with aiming the YAG laser at the layer of frosting.

During the treatment patients will see flashes of light and hear a clicking sound. The pupil needs to be dilated before YAG laser can be performed to allow a good view of the lens surface.