Taking Care of Your Contact Lenses

Contact lenses are a great alternative to wearing glasses, as long as you take care of them and your eyes while using them. Think about it. Contact lenses are a medical device that you insert into and wear on the surface of your eyes. They should be in optimal condition, [...]

Taking Care of Your Contact Lenses

What Causes Uveitis?

What is Uveitis Uveitis is a broad term describing a group of inflammatory diseases of the eye that involves swelling and destroys eye tissues. It can be painful, the eye or eyes can be red, and swollen with cloudy vision. There are three types of uveitis; anterior, intermediate, and posterior [...]

What Causes Uveitis?

What Is Anisocoria?

When your eyes pupils are not the same size, that is known as Anisocoria. Although most people’s pupils are the same size, at least one in five individuals have pupils that are different sizes. Many people that have pupils that differ in size, have no problems with their vision and [...]

What Is Anisocoria?

Aqueous Humor and its Role in the Eye

The aqueous humor is the thin, clear, watery fluid that fills both the anterior and posterior chambers of the eye. It is similar to plasma but contains lower protein concentrations. And is made up of 99.9% water – the other 0.1% consists of sugars, vitamins, proteins and other nutrients What [...]

Aqueous Humor and its Role in the Eye

How to Avoid Corneal Abrasions

The cornea is the clear, round dome covering the eye’s iris and pupil. It helps by focusing the light as it enters the eye and it helps to protect the iris and pupil from damage. A corneal abrasion is a scratched or scraped cornea that can affect vision. It is [...]

How to Avoid Corneal Abrasions

Prevent Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Macular degeneration, and more specifically age-related macular degeneration, is a age-related eye disease. In a 2001 study known as the AREDS (age-related eye disease study), researchers found that high doses of vitamins C, E, beta-carotene, and zinc/copper was beneficial in reducing the rate of progression to advanced AMD in patients [...]

Prevent Age-Related Macular Degeneration

What is Amblyopia?

Amblyopia is oftentimes referred to as “Lazy Eye”. To understand what causes lazy eye, you have to first understand how the brain and eyes work together to produce vision. The eye focuses light on the retina. The retina is a layer at the back of the eyeball containing cells that [...]

What is Amblyopia?

Why Consider IPL Treatment Therapy for Chronic Dry Eye Disease

IPL Treatment Therapy is commonly used by cosmetic and medical practitioners to treat skin-related issues for therapeutic and aesthetic purposes. Some of these dermatological issues include sun damage, acne scarring, hair removal, thread veins, and rosacea. Recently IPL is increasingly being used in optometry and ophthalmology to treat chronic dry [...]

Why Consider IPL Treatment Therapy for Chronic Dry Eye Disease

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