Purpose

• Assessment of corneal thickness.
• Used for diagnosis of glaucoma by providing corrected IOP levels.
• Pre-operative evaluation to LASIK (for the treatment of Myopia - Short sight) and other intra-corneal refractive procedures.

Advantages

• Proper assessment of corneal thickness possible and not arbitrary as in visual assessment.
• IOP can be adjusted to the corneal thickness for proper management of glaucoma, since high IOP (Eye Pressure) can also be due to increased thickness of the cornea.

Procedure

• Cornea anaesthetized with topical anesthetic.
• Probe placed over the cornea and an average of five readings taken.
• For IOP correction the average value is corrected with a normogram.