What is a diabetic eye exam? 

A diabetic eye exam is a detailed evaluation of the health of your retina and other parts of the eye that can be affected by diabetes.

Let’s go over what a diabetic eye exam is, what’s involved and why it’s so important.

What does a diabetic eye exam include?

Diabetic eye exams can vary in length and scope, depending on what your eye doctor feels is necessary to successfully manage your condition.

For example, if you have just been diagnosed with diabetes and you’ve recently had a comprehensive eye exam that showed no signs of diabetic retinopathy, your follow-up diabetic eye exam may require your doctor to simply recheck the condition of your retina. 

But if you’ve had diabetes for a number of years and your doctor has already detected signs of retinopathy or other eye problems related to your disease, your diabetic eye exam may be more extensive and may even include some form of in-office treatment.

The following tests and procedures are commonly performed in most diabetic eye exams: