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Blog Update: Your Child's Most Essential School Test

Your Child's Most Essential School Test Is making an appointment for a comprehensive eye exam for your children on your back-to-school checklist? It needs to be.

Blog Update: Framing Your Face

Framing Your Face Making a decision on what style glasses you will be wearing for the next year until your vision is checked again can be stressful. This is one of the many reasons opticians are here for you. In many ways, this may be the most important task for the optician, because keeping you happy with the way yo...

Blog Update: 13 Quick Eye Facts to Impress Your Friends

13 Quick Eye Facts to Impress Your Friends 3. The surface tissue of your cornea (the epithelium) is one of the quickest-healing tissues in your body. The entire corneal surface can turn over every 7 days.

Blog Update: Why Are My Eyes Pink?

Why Are My Eyes Pink? The eye looks red when the blood vessels that are in the conjunctiva (the mucous membrane that covers the white of your eye and the backside of your eyelids) becomes dilated.

Blog Update: Blinded by the Light

Blinded by the Light Fireworks sales are exploding across the country through the Fourth of July. As retailers are blazing their promotions, we and the AAO are shining a light on this explosive fact--the number of eye injuries caused by fireworks has rocketed in recent years.

Blog Update: 6 Great Reasons for Wearing Those Sunglasses

6 Great Reasons for Wearing Those Sunglasses One huge way that sunglasses provide a medical benefit is in the prevention of skin cancer on your eyelids. UV light exposure from the sun is one of the strongest risk factors for the development of skin cancers.  

Blog Update: I am seeing some strange things, Doc

I am seeing some strange things, Doc The spots, strings, or cobwebs that drift in and out of your vision are called “floaters,” and they are more prominent if you’re looking against a white background.

Blog Update: Eye Diseases with a Genetic Link

Eye Diseases with a Genetic Link Glaucoma is a deterioration of the optic nerve caused by pressure in the eye or poor blood flow to the optic nerve. It has no symptoms at its onset. In most cases if you wait to get glaucoma diagnosed until you begin to realize there is something wrong with your vision, upwards of 70% of your optic...

Blog Update: Care for Your Scary Red Eye

Care for Your Scary Red Eye At some point, you might be the victim of one of these scenarios: You rub your eye really hard, or you walk into something, or you just wake up with a red, painful, swollen eye. However it happened, your eye is red, you’re possibly in pain, and you’re worried.

Blog Update: Macular Degeneration + Cataract Surgery

Macular Degeneration + Cataract Surgery There have been concerns about cataract surgery causing progression of AMD. It has been thought that there was an inflammatory component to AMD and the normal inflammatory response after cataract surgery may lead to AMD progression.