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5 Reasons Eye Exams Matter

We all have busy lives, so it can be easy to forget about things like scheduling regular eye exams. That’s why we’re using this blog post to give you five great reasons to remember your eyesight when you’re planning your time! 1. An Ounce Of Prevention… Many eye diseases, such as glaucoma...


What Is Age-Related Macular Degeneration?

In AMD patients, vision loss occurs as the macula deteriorates over time. The macula is the part of the retina responsible for sharp, central vision, AMD can make it difficult or impossible to do daily tasks like reading...


What Is Age-Related Macular Degeneration?

Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is one of the leading causes of vision loss for people over the age of 50. In AMD patients, vision loss occurs as the macula deteriorates over time. The macula is the part of the retina responsible for sharp, central vision, AMD can make it difficult or impo...


Taking Care Of Your Lenses

We all love our glasses and contact lenses for letting us enjoy the details of the world around us and perform our daily tasks. If we want them to do their job well and last as long as they should, though, we need to take proper care of them. Here are our top tips for glasses and contact lens mai...


Smart Contact Lenses?

What exactly are smart contact lenses, and what would they be for? Let’s take a look at a few of the different possibilities we could be seeing in the not-so-distant future...


Smart Contact Lenses?

It wasn’t so long ago that the idea of a smart contact lens seemed like the stuff of science fiction, but it’s pretty close to becoming science fact. What exactly are smart contact lenses, and what would they be for? Let’s take a look at a few of the different possibilities we could be seei...


All About Those Lenses

Let’s face it: glasses and contact lenses are pretty amazing. For so many people around the world, two little pieces of clear material are the difference between living in a blurry, muddled world and being able to read, drive, and appreciate the details of their surroundings. How do these amazi...


Keratoconus And Eyesight

Do you remember in old cartoons when a character would see a delicious plate of food and his eyes would comically bulge out like footballs? That pointed cone shape of the eye in such scenes isn’t much different from the effects of keratoconus, a vision disorder in which the cornea (the front pa...


Progressive Lenses Versus Bifocals

Those of us lucky enough to have perfect vision until that age will only require reading glasses to help with up-close vision...


Progressive Lenses Versus Bifocals

Nearly everyone over the age of 65 will experience a reduced elasticity of the lenses of their eyes — a condition called presbyopia. Those of us lucky enough to have perfect vision until that age will only require reading glasses to help with up-close vision. However, for the 42 percent of Amer...


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