Understanding OCT Imaging as Part of Your Regular Eye Checkup
A routine eye exam used to mean reading letters on a chart, checking whether your glasses prescription had changed, looking at eye pressure, and letting the doctor examine the back of the eye with a bright light. Those steps still matter. They remain the foundation of good eye care. But modern eye exams often include something that patients could not easily experience a generation ago: a detailed cross-sectional scan of the retina. That scan is called OCT, short for opti