Your retinal screening guide 396

Optical coherence tomography, usually shortened to OCT, has become one of the most useful tools in modern eye care because it lets clinicians see the living retina in astonishing detail, quickly and without surgery. For many patients, the first surprise is how ordinary the test feels. You sit with your chin on a rest, look into a machine, and within seconds the device captures cross-sectional images of the back of the eye. There is no bright flash in most cases, no discomfo