examine the retina or to treat it can you do this through an artificial and says well for me that doesn t really matter whether i look at the retina through a natural or an artificial lens and i told you examine the retina was the thing you did on my eye today yes so what we do is we look at the optic disk for example that is the where the optic nerve starts that connects basically the eye and the brain in this area we can also observe all of the retina vasculature and we can look whether the retina as a teched are not the vasculature would be for example affected in diabetes and then we also look at the meckler area that is the area of sharpest vision and this is where reading as possible and in this area also a variety of diseases occurs. out of these for example epi retina membranes that