September is sports eye safety month.An estimated 40,000 sports-related eye injuries occur every year, predominantly with kids under the age of 18. Here’s what parents of athletes need to know so that they can all be prepared in case of an unexpected emergency. The highest risk sports for eye injuries are racquet sports, basketball, baseball… Read More
What is monovision? Monovision is an option often used when patients start to develop presbyopia, a condition causing difficulty reading small print or seeing near objects. Presbyopia starts to become evident in most people between 38 to 48 and worsens with age. To address presbyopia, the doctor may prescribe glasses with bifocal or progressive lenses… Read More
In 2017, another laser corneal sculpting option became available for nearsighted individuals. The VisuMax femtosecond laser manufactured by Zeiss of Dublin, California was approved in September 2016 for the use of the SMILE procedure. SMILE is an acronym for Small Incision Lenticular Extraction. As in Femto-Flap Creation, a million or so laser pulses are placed… Read More
LASIK has become the eye surgery preference for today’s athletes, celebrities, the image-conscience, and people with active outdoor lifestyles. For those who want improved vision without having to wear eyeglasses and contact lenses – LASIK makes this a reality. Specifically, laser in-situ keratomileusis, better known as LASIK, is a surgical procedure used to correct vision… Read More
Fireworks are spectacular and fun, but decades of experience have taught us that they are dangerous and should be left to professional firework handlers. Did you know that nearly 2,000 eye injuries occur each year because of fireworks? And nearly 50% of firework injuries are children, 15 and younger. The American Academy of Ophthalmology urges… Read More
There are approximately 36 million people in the United States who wear contact lenses. When contact lenses are fitted to the eye, much more is taken into account than just the numbers from the glasses prescription. The curvature of the cornea (the clear tissue at the front of the eye that the contact lens sits… Read More
Glaucoma is a complicated disease in which over time, damage to the optic nerve leads to progressive, irreversible vision loss. It is estimated that about three million Americans have glaucoma, but only about half of them know that they have this disease. Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness for people over 60 years old… Read More
If you’re fortunate enough to be receiving a refund at tax time and you were thinking about using it for the vacation of a lifetime, might we suggest instead using it for a vacation for a lifetime! Consider Laser Vision Correction to get rid of your contacts and glasses. If you are among the 75%… Read More
Procedures such as LASIK and PRK reshape the cornea by removing microscopic amounts of tissue. In order for these procedures to be effective, the cornea must maintain a certain thickness after reshaping. As it turns out, the higher your prescription, the more your cornea must be thinned. Patients who are very nearsighted, or who have… Read More
According to the American Foundation for the Blind, 22.5 million American Adults age 18 and older reported experiencing vision loss, and more than about 80 percent of them could have been avoided or cured. That’s why regular eye exams are so important, they can be particularly helpful in detecting progressive eye conditions such as vision… Read More
