The practice

We speak German - English - Slovak - Serbian

Your doctor

Dr. med. D. Birkle

Dr. med. D. Birkle

Eye specialist

Studies University of Regensburg / Technical Universitiy of Munich / University of Tübingen

Doctorate University eye hospital of Tübingen

Advanced training City hospital of Karlsruhe / Hospital of Offenburg

Practice Since 1994 in Stuttgart-Giebel

Member of the German professional association of eye doctors (Berufsverband der Augenärzte Deutschlands e.V.)

Our services

• Treatment of all forms of glaucoma, by medical therapy and by laser-surgery
• Macula clinic
• Retina clinic
• Laser surgery of the retina (diabetic retinopathy, tears, vascular diseases)
• All kinds of medical certificates of the eye
• Treatment of children with orthoptist's practice
• Guidance and fitting of cosmetic and therapeutic contact lenses
• Fitting of glasses for everyday use and work usecases

Checkups

• For early detection of glaucoma
• For early detection of retina diseases like macular degeneration of old age or dangerous alterations of the retina in nearsighted patients
• For early detection of ametropia in children

We offer modern diagnostic tools like

• Non-contact tonometry (contactless measurement of intra-ocular pressure)
• Pachymetry (contactless measurement of corneal thickness for a more precise calculation of the intra-ocular pressure)
• Corneal topography (three-dimensional mapping of the corneal surface to e.g. detect rare corneal diseases and prepare the most difficult to fit contact lenses)
• HD-OCT for cross-sectional mapping of the retina and optic nerve 
• Ultrawide imagining of the retina (camera based visualisation of the whole retina - in most cases possible without medical dilation of the pupil. Your benefit: Less waiting time and no restrictions of participation in road traffic due to the exam) 
• Mapping of the iridiocorneal angle to diagnose narrow-angle glaucoma

Surgical therapies:

• Laser surgery of the aftercataract following cataract surgery as well as narrow- and wide-angle glaucoma
• Laser surgery of the retina, e.g. due to diabetes-induced retinal bleeding, after vascular obliteration of the retina and due to retinal tears
• Small eyelid surgery
• Preparation of a second opinion ahead of surgical procedures

For your safety we work as contact-free as possible

Certain exams and therapies however require touching the eye. In these cases we predominantly utilise single-use tools like

• Single use contact glasses
  
• Single use applanation tonometer equipment
• Single use cannulas for the nasolacrimal duct
• Single use corneal mills