5 Tips to Keep Your Eyes Healthy

5 Tips to Keep Your Eyes Healthy

When it comes to your eyes, you only get two! While corneal transplants and lens exchanges exist, there is currently no replacement for the eye as a whole. Therefore, we need to do our best to take care of what we have.   Ocular Anatomy of Healthy Eyes To best...

Why You Need Your Eyes Dilated

Each time you see your eye doctor, they will ask if you can be dilated. While many people hate dilation—the drops sting upon instillation, bright lights are shown into your now light-sensitive eyes, the inability to see up close for hours after your exam, and enlarged...
Presbyopia Treatment Options

Presbyopia Treatment Options

One of the most noteworthy problems individuals have with their eyes is needing reading glasses as we age. Why do we need reading glasses? Can I avoid reading glasses? What can I do instead of using reading glasses? This article aims to help answer some of these...
Is Radial Keratotomy Still Relevant?

Is Radial Keratotomy Still Relevant?

Popular in the 1970s to 1990s radial keratotomy, or RK for short, was the most popular refractive surgery technique. Today it has been replaced with techniques such as LASIK, PRK, and SMILE as they offer more predictable results with fewer complications and adverse...
What is a Chalazion and a Hordeolum?

What is a Chalazion and a Hordeolum?

Chalazions Many of us experience, or at least have heard of, a stye. Styes are painful little red bumps of the eyelid. But what are these? Do they carry any serious risk of long-term harm?   Hordeolums The official medical name for a stye is a hordeolum. Within...