Detailed information
SquintScope® possibilities
SquintScope® allows for examination of the childrens eyes with different ophthalmic devices:
- Handheld and table mounted slitlamp
- Icare tonometer
- Direct or indirect ophthalmoscopy
- Retinoscopy
- OCT scans
- Fundus photography
Other applications:
SquintScope® has been used as fixation control in adult mentally retarded patients to enable eye examination and treatment with YAG laser capsulotomy for cataracta secundaria.
Successful use of SquintScope®
In the waiting room:
Greet the child in the waiting room and let it watch cartoons with SquintScope® while waiting for his/her appointment.
In the clinic:
The child brings SquintScope® into the examination room, and a small conversation about the cartoon can be held.
The doctor asks the child:
- Who is in the cartoon?
- What is Pingu doing?
- Who is coming for the birthday party?
- Is it cold for the penguin to stand on the ice in bare feet?
Try SquintScope® if you have ever:
- Had difficulty performing a full eye examination in 2-6 year-old child
- Had children not wanting or been unable to sit still during the eye-examination
- Only been able to examine one eye of a child
- Seen a child’s retina only “in a glimpse”
- Wished to be able to make an OCT scan of the 3-year-old
- Wished to have a photo of retina or the optic nerve in the 3-year-old
- Had difficulty examining a child with large angle esotropia
- Found that the child had to return several times to the eye-clinic before the desired
examinations were fulfilled - Wished it was be possible to perform an eye-examination in a child this is of the quality as in an adult
- (Almost) wished that no children would come to your clinic today