10 Tips for Halloween Safety Month

October is Halloween Safety Month. In observance of this month the staff and doctors at Fort Lauderdale Eye Institute urge you to take these precautions: Use makeup instead of masks when possible. Masks can block your vision and prevent you from seeing objects that are in front of you or [...]

Simple things You can do to Maintain Good Eye Health

Taking care of your eyes now can help prevent future eye health issues. Read these simple tips to help you protect your vision: Use eye protection Sunglasses – to protect your eyes from the sun’s harmful UV rays Safety Wear – wherever there is potential to be exposed to hazardous [...]

Pneumatic Retinopexy for Retinal Detachments

Pneumatic Retinopexy is an office based, non-incisional, surgical procedure used to repair “select” cases of rhegmatogenous retinal detachments; and is often an alternative to scleral buckling and vitrectomy. […]

Laser Skin Resurfacing around the Eyes

As we get older, our skin begins to lose its elasticity and youthful appearance – especially the skin around our eyes. Excessive exposure to sunlight and other factors such as nutrition, genetics, alcohol consumption and smoking can accelerate the ageing process. Laser skin resurfacing, also known as a laser peel, [...]

Pterygium

Pterygium is an elevated, wedged-shaped bump on the eyeball that begins on the sclera (white of the eye) and can invade the cornea. Although Pterygia are benign growths, they can cause discomfort, blurry vision, and can permanently disfigure the eye. Commonly known as “surfer’s eye”, you don’t have to be [...]

Choroidal Neovascularization

Choroidal Neovascularization (CNV) is a major cause of vision loss and is the creation of new blood vessels in the choroid layer of the eye. The choroid supplies oxygen and nutrients to the eye. CNV is a common cause of vision loss. The most common cause of CNV is from [...]

When to take your Child to an Eye Doctor

According to the National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness, visual functioning is a strong predictor of academic performance in school-age children. “Vision plays an important role in children’s physical, cognitive, and social development. More than one in five preschool-age children enrolled in Head Start have [...]

Phacoemulsification Surgery for Cataracts

Created by Charles Kelman in the late 1960’s, Phaco also referred to as phacoemulsification is used to restore vision in patients whose vision has become cloudy from cataracts. Kelman created phacoemulsification surgery as a variation to extracapsular cataract extraction to remove the cataract with a smaller incision, less pain, and [...]

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