Pollards Opticians

14/04/2026

This picture explains quite well why we take some much time and care when measuring up for your glasses. Every millimeter of accuracy counts, and the equipment we use such as the pupillometer really helps with accuracy.

05/04/2026

Wishing a Happy Easter to all our patients in the community and beyond celebrating.

29/03/2026

24/03/2026

Investing in the future. VR Headset Visual Field Analysis. Today we had the opportunity to trial a new concept in visual field analysis.
To our surprise the new equipment was lightweight, portable and very user friendly, but most of all it was very accurate.
To Fizzs surprise he thought he was going to play some virtual reality games, but the rep told him unfortunately there is a block on game installation 🤣😂

21/03/2026

Very informative reel explaining why we stopped using glasses lenses as an industry

20/03/2026

Happy Eid to all our patients and the wider community that are celebrating.

19/03/2026

A timely reminder, please don't ignore any of these symptoms, and remember you don't get all the symptoms at once.

18/02/2026

Happy Ramadan to all our observing community

15/02/2026

This patient attended for a routine contact lens examination, not knowning he had some dangerous damage taking place at the back of the one of his eyes.

For years we had been advising him to take better care of his health (diabetes) and to book regular annual eye tests - due to his busy lifestyle he would often fail on both requests.

Our Optometrist noticed during the contact lens examination that something was not quite right.

He made a quick decision to inform the next patient that he will running behind and then proceeded to dilate this patients eyes and investigate further, revealing the picture above....Diabetic Retinal Fibrosis

Diabetic Retinal Fibrosis is a severe, late-stage complication of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) where chronic high blood sugar causes abnormal vessel growth (neovascularization) to turn into scar tissue. This fibrous tissue pulls on the retina, causing tractional retinal detachment, significant vision loss, or blindness.

Hopefully due to our quick thinking and quick reaction we have saved this patient from further vision loss.

30/01/2026

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For those who want to know which part of the eye this is....

These are the outline (boundary) of the pupil. The “inner circle” of the iris. The black in the image above is the pupil. The “fingers and hair” are part of the iris.

You’re welcome! 😊

At 1000× magnification, the human eye stops looking smooth and familiar.
What appears soft and invisible at normal scale becomes a landscape of ridges, folds, and translucent structures.
These pink, finger-like forms are part of the eye’s microscopic anatomy, normally hidden beneath eyelashes and skin.
Up close, the eye looks less like a lens and more like living tissue shaped by constant motion and moisture.
This extreme zoom reveals how complex and biological vision truly is, far beyond what we ever notice.