Watch educational, medical videos related to eye care, eye health and surgical procedures in the field of ophthalmology. To watch videos on a particular category, choose the link below for that specific specialty.
Dry Eye Treatment – Artificial Tears
Are you using over-the-counter, artificial tears to soothe your dry eye symptoms? Artificial tears can offer relief from your dry eye symptoms, but with so many options
What Causes Dry Eye?
Do your eyes often feel dry or itchy? You're not alone. A lot of people have dry eye.
How to use your eye drops following cataract surgery
In this video Dr. Keith Skolnick, cataract surgeon at Fort Lauderdale Eye Institute, explains how to use your eye drops following cataract surgery.
Cataracts: A-Scan Biometry
A-Scan biometry is a computerized test used to measure the length of your eye. During this test, sound waves are bounced off the back of your eye to calculate the strength of the intra-ocular lens implant.
Upper Lid Blepharoplasty: Overview
Over time, the skin of your eyelids can begin to droop into your field of vision and obstruct your line of sight. This can be addressed with a procedure called functional blepharoplasty
Glaucoma Awareness
Also known as the silent thief of sight, glaucoma typically causes vision loss over such a long period of time that you don’t notice the changes to your vision.
Blepharoplasty: Overview
In a Blepharoplasty procedure, excess skin, muscle and fat may be removed or repositioned in the upper and lower eyelid areas.
Entropion: Overview
If the eyelid turns inward, the eyelashes can rub against the eye, and cause significant discomfort.
Ectropion: Overview
If the eyelid turns outward, it leaves sensitive areas of the eye exposed. This is often due to a condition called Ectropion
Diabetes Complications: Overview
If left untreated, diabetes can damage the blood vessels of the retina, potentially leading to blindness.
Cosmetic Blepharoplasty
Do you look tired or sad all the time? Are you frustrated with your puffy or drooping eyelids, or heavy bags or empty hollows under your eyes?
LASIK Introduction
Describes the benefits of LASIK, and how it compares to glasses as a treatment for nearsightedness or farsightedness.
Why your vision changes during pregnancy
Women might not be aware that being pregnant or nursing can affect their vision. This video explains changes in vision during and after pregnancy and while nursing.
Home Eye Safety
Millions of eye injuries occur every year and most happen in a person’s home. This video recommends some simple eye home safety tips patients can implement to avoid preventable harm to their vision.
Macular Degeneration: Overview
Age related macular degeneration also known as AMD, is the deterioration of the center of the retina called the macula.
Macular Degeneration: Treatment Overview
While macular degeneration is a common cause of vision loss, early detection and timely treatment can help delay its progression and preserve your vision.
Cataracts: Overview
Cataracts are a part of the aging process, but they do not have to interfere with your life style. A cataract is a cloudiness of the crystalline lens inside your eye
Cataracts: Treatment Overview
Today, cataracts can be treated in a variety of ways. Initially, when symptoms begin to appear, you may be able to improve your vision with a new pair of glasses or a change in prescription.
Diabetic Retinopathy: Overview
Anyone with diabetes is at risk of developing diabetic retinopathy. In its early stages, there may be little or no visual symptoms. Without early detection and treatment, diabetic retinopathy can permanently damage the retina.
Diabetic Retinopathy: Treatment Overview
There are many treatments for diabetic retinopathy. Prevention is an important part of treating this condition.
Dry Eye Testing – Tear Breakup Time
One test for dry eye is known as the "Tear Breakup Time" test. The Tear Breakup Time test can provide an important measurement of how well a patient's tears wet and protect the eye's surface.
Dry Eye Treatment Overview
There are a variety of dry eye treatments available to provide relief from dry eye.
Dry Eye Testing – Introduction
Testing for Dry Eye is performed after evaluating a patient's symptoms and medical history.
Glaucoma: Cause
Glaucoma is caused by a number of different eye diseases, which in most cases produce increased pressure within the eye.
Glaucoma: Drops
If you are diagnosed with glaucoma, your doctor may prescribe eye drops to control pressure in your eye.
Glaucoma: Introduction
Nothing is more precious than our eye sight. Our eyes allow us to enjoy the beauty of the world around us.
Glaucoma: How Fluid Circulates In The Eye
To understand how glaucoma develops, we must first understand how fluid circulates within the eye.
Glaucoma: Ocular Hypertension
The term ocular hypertension typically refers to any situation in which the pressure inside of the eye is higher than normal.
Glaucoma: Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty
The newest laser surgical option for the treatment of open angle glaucoma is called selective laser trabeculoplasty or SLT.
Trabeculectomy: Overview
Glaucoma can be treated with a special procedure called a Trabeculectomy.
Narrow Angle Glaucoma
A small percent of people with glaucoma have a condition known as narrow angle glaucoma.
Glaucoma Testing Overview
Individuals who are at risk of developing glaucoma should be tested regularly to maintain the quality of their vision.
Glaucoma Overview
In a healthy eye, a balance exists between the fluid produced, and the fluid that leaves the eye.
Glaucoma: Type – Closed-Angle
In cases of angle closure glaucoma (closed-angle glaucoma), the iris may bow forward so much, that it cuts off your eye's angle completely.
Glaucoma Treatment Overview
Treatments for glaucoma can range from eye drops and oral medications to surgery and laser treatments.
Glaucoma: Type – Open-Angle
Open-angle glaucoma is the most common form of adult glaucoma and can lead to a loss of vision or blindness.
Cosmetic Fillers: Overview
Many people notice undesirable facial lines, shadows and wrinkles appearing as they age.
Muscle Relaxing Injections: Overview
Many of us notice fine lines on our faces. Tiny lines may exist in the corners of our eyes, making us look older.
Ptosis: Treatment Overview
Drooping eyelids caused by ptosis can be addressed with an outpatient procedure.
Ptosis: Overview
When someone suffers from drooping eyelids, they may have difficulty seeing. This often results from a condition called ptosis.
Blepharitis: Overview
Blepharitis is a common condition that results in inflammation affecting the eyelids, and eyelashes.
Vitreous: Floaters
Small specks or clouds moving in your field of vision are called floaters.
IOL: Multifocal Lens – Overview
A special type of lens implant, called a multifocal lens, simultaneously provides both near and far focus and can greatly reduce your dependence on reading glasses after cataract surgery.
IOL: Multifocal – Introduction
New multifocal IOLs are now available which can reduce the need for reading glasses after cataract, or lens replacement surgery.
IOL: Toric Lens – Overview
Astigmatism correction can also be incorporated into the artificial lens that is implanted at the time of cataract surgery.
IOL: Toric Lens – Introduction
Special IOLs, called Toric IOLs, can reduce or eliminate the need for low vision correction after cataract surgery.
IOL: Toric Lens – Introduction (RLE)
Special IOLs, called Toric IOLs, can reduce or eliminate the need for distance vision correction after lens replacement surgery.
Macular Degeneration: Wet Form
A less common, but more serious form of age related macular degeneration is called the "wet form".
Intravitreal Injections: Post-Op
After an intravitreal injection, patients may experience a mild irritation or burning sensation that typically lasts less than a day.
Retinal Detachment Overview
A retinal detachment occurs when the retina's layers separate.
Vitreous Detachment Video
As we age, the vitreous inside the eye tends to shrink, and may eventually separate from the inside surface of the eye.
Importance of Complete Eye Exams
Caring for your eyesight begins with complete eye examinations.
LASIK Refractive Surgery – Who is a Good Candidate?
LASIK can be very successful when performed on the right patients, but is not for everyone.
What is Refractive Surgery
Glasses and contacts can be great tools used to help you see clearly, but they can also come with their own set of problems.
What is a Refractive Error
When light reaches a curved surface it bends. This process of bending light is called refraction.
Refractive Errors and Eye Diseases
We depend on our eyes for vision throughout our lives. Decreased vision, occurring at any age, can significantly impact the quality of our lives.
Refractive Error: Introduction
Nothing is more precious than our eye sight. Our eyes allow us to enjoy the beauty of the world around us.
Refractive Cataract Surgery: During The Procedure
Cataract surgery is one of the safest and most commonly performed operations around the world.
