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Are Your Contacts Causing Your Dry Eyes?
Dry eye is a condition in which the eyes feel gritty, itchy, and can appear red. It can cause extreme discomfort for individuals and unfortunately interrupt comfortable performance of daily tasks. There are a variety of different causes for dry eye disease, ranging...
Should You Use Different Glasses for Different Activities?
Glasses are excellent devices that provide optimal vision for many individuals on a daily basis. However, those with specific visual needs may need specialized devices for their work or hobby-specific tasks. Below are some of the options available for task-specific...
How Does Your Heart and Blood Vessels Affect Your Eyes?
Your eyes have one of the most intricate circulatory patterns throughout the entire body. They are fed and drained by numerous blood vessels that provide nutrients to the different components of the eye. Unfortunately, systemic conditions that affect blood flow can...
6 Tips to Living with Reduced Peripheral Vision
Certain eye conditions, such as glaucoma, can cause peripheral visual field loss. In these cases, the patient may have adequate central vision but reduced awareness or an inability to perceive signals coming from a specific area of their side vision. This can be in...
What Causes Nystagmus?
During your eye examination, our optometrists are assessing a variety of components associated with the function and structure of your eyes. Eye movements are one of the main components and, in some cases, they may differ from the general population. What is...
What Type of Glasses Prescription Do You Have?
Many people wear glasses or contact lenses and might wonder what the various components of their prescriptions mean. These can be confusing topics to understand without learning a lot about them. The three main types of refractive error are nearsightedness,...
What Contact Lens is Right For You?
Presbyopia, the inability to focus on objects up close, is a process that often begins to become more noticeable in an individual’s late thirties to mid forties. Multifocal spectacle lenses, usually being progressive lenses, are a great option that provide improved...
Do Your Eyes Change as You Age?
As we age, it is natural for the structures and functionality of the eye to change. It is inevitable and sometimes even goes unnoticed by many people. Here are some examples of the many ocular processes that change as we age naturally. Cornea: How the front...
Corneal Neuralgia: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments
The cornea sits at the front of the eye and acts as a window through which the eye sees. It is responsible for transmitting light and protecting the eye from debris. With its many nerves, the cornea is also one of the most sensitive body parts to pain, and in some...
FAQ’s About Recurrent Corneal Erosions
Have you ever woken up with your eye in pain, tearing and red? Was it sensitive to light and feeling like there was something stuck inside it? Has it happened multiple times before? There is a chance that it was a recurrent corneal erosion (RCE). Read on to learn more...
New Eye Exam Technology
All of medicine and healthcare is becoming increasingly technologically advanced, and eye care is on the leading edge of this progress. During your eye examination with us, we will use powerful technology to give us more knowledge about your eye health, screen for...
Can Smoking Affect Your Eyes?
Smoking has a variety of adverse effects on the body and the eyes are no exception. It is often a risk factor for developing several diseases or exacerbates existing conditions. Here are some of the interactions that smoking has with the health of your eyes....
Do You Have Color Blindness?
One test that is often performed during the preliminary part of an eye examination is color vision assessment. This often is done by asking a patient to distinguish a number from a background of colored dots. Color vision deficits are usually acquired genetically and...
How Does Your Optometrist Check Your Eye Pressure?
At a previous eye examination, you may remember having a puff of air blown into each of your eyes before seeing the doctor. Some people do not mind this, while others are quite afraid of this portion of the testing. This article will describe what this test measures,...
Causes for Cataracts (Other than Aging)
Although many people understand that a cataract is a condition in the lens of the eye that most often occurs with age, it is less well known that other risk factors can also impact the onset of cataracts. Read on to learn about some of the major risk factors that can...
3 Ways Your Cornea Can Be Damaged
The clear part of the eye in front of the colored part (the iris) is called the cornea. It is an amazing tissue, given the fact that it is one of the most highly sensitive and quickest healing parts of the body while simultaneously having to be free of blood vessels...
Everything You Need to Know about Cataract Surgery
Many of us might be somewhat aware of what a cataract is - a clouding of the natural lens within the eye. It will happen to everyone eventually if they live long enough, but they can occur in people at younger ages based on lifestyle and genetic factors. The treatment...
LASIK, PRK and Refractive Surgery Options
The burden of wearing glasses or contact lenses is a complaint that many individuals have. With increased popularity and more people aware of the option of refractive surgery, many are looking into what ways they have to permanently correct their blurry vision. There...
How Does Pregnancy Affect Your Eyes?
Pregnancy is a time of change in many parts of life, where an imminent mother is experiencing a wide range of changes to her body. The eyes undergo their own changes during pregnancy, although often transient. Below are some of the common changes that may occur....
Which Artificial Tear Eye Drop is Right for Me?
When our eyes are irritated, some of us first turn to lubricating eye drops from the drugstore to see if these can solve the problem. Our eye doctors may also recommend them as part of a treatment plan for conditions like dry eyes or for healing from refractive...
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