Eye Health Awareness

Protecting Your Eyes in Winter Conditions

We might get more hours of daylight in the summer, but sunglasses are important in winter too!

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The Impacts of Smoking on Eyesight

A smoking habit damages every organ and system in the body, including the eyes.

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How Diabetes Impacts Eyesight

One of the many things diabetes can impact when it isn’t carefully controlled is eyesight.

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How Eye Color Works

Human eye color comes from melanin, the same compound that determines skin and hair color.

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Learn the Signs of Retinal Detachment

Human eyes are incredibly complex, which means there are many ways something can go wrong.

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Corrective Lenses Through History

Since as early as 60 A.D., people have been using vision-correcting tools to help them see.

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What Are the Degrees of Visual Impairment?

Vision problems can’t all be corrected with glasses or contact lenses.

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The Relationship Between Eyes and Sleep

Studies have shown that sleep deprivation hits the body and mind a lot like alcohol.

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Smart Tips for an Eye-Safe Home

44% of all eye injuries happen in the home.

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All About Costume Contacts

A great way to take a Halloween costume or cosplay outfit to the next level is with costume contact lenses.

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Makeup Eye Safety Tips

Back in the old days, makeup was full of ingredients like lead, arsenic, and mercury.

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How Often Should I Get Eye Exams?

Your dentist has probably told you to get a cleaning and exam every six months, but how often should we get eye exams?

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Keeping Our Eyes Healthy as We Age

Among the many changes our bodies undergo as we get older are the changes to our eyesight.

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The Importance of Eye Protection for Athletes

An estimated 90% of eye injuries are preventable if the right eye protection is worn.

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How Does Animal Eyesight Work?

We wouldn’t have gone into the optometry field if we weren’t fascinated by eyes, and there are some incredible ones in nature.

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Prevent and Minimize Digital Eye Strain

Digital screens have become an increasingly prominent part of our lives in recent decades.

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Eye Exams: Vital to Your Child’s Education

A staple of every school nurse’s office is the big E eye chart.

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What Is Pink Eye?

How much do you know about conjunctivitis (pink eye)?

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Eyesight Is More Than 20/20 Vision

We tend to think of 20/20 vision being a synonym for perfect eyesight, but that isn’t quite true.

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What Are the Most Eye-Healthy Foods?

We’ve all heard that eating carrots will give us amazing eyesight.

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Welcome to the Glasses Club!

Wearing glasses can be a big adjustment for kids when they’re just starting out.

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Making Makeup Work With Glasses

It’s hard enough figuring out the most flattering makeup for our facial features — what about when we add glasses?

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How Does an Active Lifestyle Help Eye Health?

Staying active is great for our health, including the health of our eyes!

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The History of Cataract Treatment

Cataracts are the world’s leading cause of blindness, and the history of treating them is long and fascinating.

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Swimming and Eye Health

Let’s go over a few eye safety facts before we all start playing in the water this summer!

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Important Eye Safety Rules for Fireworks

Fireworks are probably the most iconic part of every year’s Independence Day festivities.

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Learn to Recognize Ocular Migraines

Have you ever seen a patch of shimmering light that widened until it filled your field of vision?

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What to Look for in Your New Frames

Do you know how to find glasses frames that suit your features?

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Sunglasses Versus UV Rays

Summer is almost here; are you as excited as we are?

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What’s Inside the Human Eye?

The human eye is amazingly complex.

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Men’s Eyesight and Eye Health

Men and women aren’t just different in the obvious ways; their eyes are different too!

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Sports and Visual Skills

When we think of athletes, we probably think of speed and strength first, but what about vision?

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What’s Unique About Women’s Vision?

When you think of the differences between men and women, vision and eye health probably aren’t on the list.

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Eyes Can Be an Access Point for Germs

When was the last time you rubbed your eyes?

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Are Your Eyes Ready for Allergy Season?

Nothing can ruin the beauty of spring quite so quickly as an allergy attack.

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Why Do We Need to Blink?

Blinking does a lot for the health and function of our eyes.

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What Do Eyes Have to Do With Headaches?

Frequent headaches could be a symptom of an uncorrected vision problem.

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Tanning Beds and Eye Safety

You might have heard that indoor tanning is a safe alternative to sunbathing, but that is false.

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Workplace Eye Safety

March is Workplace Eye Wellness month, so let’s celebrate by taking stock of a few ways to protect our eyes at work!

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Yes, Eye Exams Matter

Regular eye exams (from an optometrist, not an app) are critical for lifelong healthy vision.

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How to Care for Your Lenses

Corrective lenses are such small things that make such enormous differences in our lives.

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The Many Shades of Color Blindness

Being colorblind can mean a lot of different things, and only in rare cases does it mean seeing in black and white.

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Heterochromia: When Eyes Don’t Match

What’s the first thing you notice about a person when you meet them?

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What to Know About AMD

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of irreversible vision loss for people over 50.

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Is Blue Light Bad for Our Eyes?

How big of a role does a bright screen play in your nightly routine?

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Reading Glasses, Bifocals, or Progressives?

As we age, the lenses in our eyes gradually lose their flexibility.

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A Few Tips for Protecting Your Eyesight

Having healthy eyesight is a critical component of maintaining a good quality of life.

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A Quick Glaucoma Crash Course

Human eyes are incredible and incredibly complicated.

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Eyesight and Night Driving

As much as we might want to avoid it, we tend to end up driving at night more often in winter.

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Know the Signs of Child Eye Problems

Healthy eyesight is hugely important to a child’s development and education.

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How Getting Older Changes Our Eyes

Aging affects us in all kinds of ways, and that includes our eyesight.

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Winter Eye Protection

It may seem strange, but sunglasses are just as important in winter as they are in summer.

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Helping Your Child Develop Healthy Vision

Seeing isn’t just something babies do automatically; they have to learn how first!

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How Smoking Harms Eye Health

Smoking is harmful to every system in the body, including eyesight.

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A Quick Round of Optometry FAQs

We hear a lot of the same questions from our patients, so let’s address them in an FAQ!

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Diabetes and Eyesight

Healthy vision is one of the many things diabetes can harm if it isn’t carefully controlled.

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Retinal Detachment Warning Signs

Human eyes are remarkable, highly complex organs.

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A Brief History of Glasses

People have been using vision-correcting tools of some kind since as early as 60 A.D.

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The Levels of Visual Impairment

Not all vision problems can be corrected by wearing glasses or contacts.

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Sleep and Vision

When we don’t manage to get a full night’s sleep, we feel it long into the next day.

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Tips for Home Eye Safety

Almost half of the eye injuries that happen each year happen at home!

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Can Makeup Be Bad for Our Eyes?

Modern makeup doesn’t contain lead, mercury, and arsenic like it used to in bygone era.

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Be Careful When Buying Costume Contacts

Colored contact lenses are sometimes the perfect final touch to take a Halloween costume to the next level.

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What Is My Ideal Eye Exam Frequency?

Dentists will tell you that you should have a dental exam every six months, but what about eye exams?

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Maintaining Healthy Vision as We Age

A lot changes as we get older, including our eyesight.

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Eye Protection for Athletes

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Strange and Fascinating Animal Eyes

Just because we’re all about helping human vision help, it doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate some of the unique eyes in nature.

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Protecting Your Eyes from Digital Strain

Many who have to rely heavily on digital devices for work have felt the discomfort of digital eye strain.

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Why Kids Need Eye Exams

What comes to mind when you think of a school nurse’s office?

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The Basics of Pink Eye

Can you recognize the symptoms of conjunctivitis (pink eye) when you see them?

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Having 20/20 Vision Isn’t Everything

“20/20 vision” and “perfect eyesight” are often used interchangeably, but they really shouldn’t be.

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Hey Kids, Your Glasses Are Awesome!

Kids often struggle to adjust to having to wear glasses.

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Nutrition and Eye Health

Eating carrots might not really give you great night vision, but certain foods do have eye health benefits.

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Glasses, Contacts, and Makeup

Using makeup to enhance your style or look your best can get a little trickier when glasses or contacts are in the equation.

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Staying Active Helps Vision Health

What are some of the things we can do to keep our eyes healthy? Eat carrots? Wear sunglasses?

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Cataract Treatment Then and Now

In the US alone, cataracts affect over 20 million adults 40 and older and half of all seniors age 80 and up.

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Eye Safety Considerations for Swimmers

Before diving into the pool this summer, make sure you’re aware of the eye safety facts.

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The Importance of Fireworks Eye Safety

We all love celebrating Independence Day with some good food, friends and family, and a dazzling display of fireworks.

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What Is an Ocular Migraine?

Ocular migraines can be alarming if you don’t know what they are and suddenly get one for the first time.

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Eyebrows and Eyelashes

Our eyebrows and eyelashes aren’t just there for decoration.

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UV Rays and Sunglasses

Things are heating up for summer!

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Tips for Choosing New Frames

When we pick out new glasses, we want frames that will help us look our best.

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The Inner Workings of the Eye

Have you ever stopped to think about how amazing the human eye is?

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The Connection Between Sports and Vision

Being a successful athlete isn’t just about speed and strength — it’s also about vision.

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Women’s Eye Health

Men and women might not come from different planets, but there are certainly a lot of differences between the two — even with eye health.

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Allergies and Our Eyes

Spring is a beautiful season with lots of flowers and vibrant greens...but it can be hard to enjoy when you have allergies.

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How Germs Can Travel to Our Eyes

Most of us rub our eyes many times in the course of the day without really thinking about it.

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The Importance of Blinking

Do you know how many times you blink in a minute?

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How Headaches and Vision Are Connected

If you suffer from frequent headaches, it might be time to schedule an eye exam.

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Indoor Tanning and Eye Health and Safety

Some people might think of indoor tanning as the safer alternative to sunbathing, but that is far from accurate.

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Are You Protecting Your Eyes at Work?

In honor of Workplace Eye Wellness Month, it’s time for a look at the steps we can all take to protect our eyes while we work.

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Why Eye Exams?

Whether you wear corrective lenses or not, regular eye exams are critical for maintaining good eye health!

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A Crash Course on AMD

For people age 50 and older, age-related macular degeneration is one of the leading causes of irreversible vision loss.

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Vision and the Challenges of Night Driving

In winter, when the days are shorter, we tend to end up driving more at night.

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How Our Eyesight Changes as We Age

The majority of people will experience changes to their eyesight as they age.

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Winter Is Here! Are Your Eyes Protected?

When we think of sunburns, most of us probably imagine sandy beaches and summer heat, but we can get sunburned in any season, including winter.

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Encouraging Healthy Vision Development

Did you know that babies have to learn how to see, just as much as they have to learn how to walk and talk?

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Smoking Versus Healthy Vision

The most common health effects that come to mind when we think of smoking are lung cancer and bad teeth, but it doesn’t stop there.

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Questions Our Patients Often Ask Us

Many of our patients come to us with the same questions without realizing it.

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Diabetes and Vision

Diabetes is a disease that can negatively affect health in many ways, including healthy eyesight.

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Recognize the Signs of Retinal Detachment

Our eyes are amazing, complex organs, but there are a lot of ways for things to go wrong.

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Glasses Lenses Through the Centuries

The earliest example of someone using a tool to assist with vision (that we know of) is Roman philosopher Seneca.

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The Connection Between Vision and Sleep

Sometimes it’s hard to get a full night’s sleep, but when we don’t, we definitely feel it.

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The Different Degrees of Visual Impairment

Some vision problems are so extreme that simple glasses or contacts aren’t enough to completely fix them.

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A Word of Caution on Costume Contacts

Halloween is our favorite spooky time of year, but we need to talk about the potential dangers of costume contact lenses.

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Good Home Eye Safety Practices

Nearly half of all eye injuries each year occur in the same place: the home.

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Makeup and Eye Safety

Cosmetics have come a long way from the toxic powders used in the Renaissance and Victorian eras.

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Is It Time For An Eye Exam?

When was the last time you came in for an eye exam?

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Protecting Your Eyesight Over The Years

As we get older, our bodies don’t function as well as they used to, and that includes our eyes.

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Finding The Best Eye Gear For Your Sport

With the new school year under way, a lot of student athletes are getting back into their sports.

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Animal Kingdom Eyesight Olympics

Our world is filled with a staggering array of animal life, and today we’d like to take a closer look at some of the best eyes nature has to offer.

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Are Your Devices Giving You Eye Strain?

Our modern digital devices give us access to all kinds of useful tools and information…but they’re not great for our eyes.

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Kids And Comprehensive Eye Exams

Most of us remember going to the school nurse as a child, covering one eye at a time, and reading off lines from the big E chart to find out if we needed glasses.

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Pink Eye: Types, Treatment, And Prevention

Have your eyes been incredibly itchy, watery, and red lately?

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Do You Know How Color Blindness Works?

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Convincing Your Child That Glasses Rule

Wearing glasses for the first time can be a difficult adjustment for any child.

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Wear Glasses? Follow These Makeup Tips

We use makeup to hide blemishes, enhance our natural beauty, and create our own personal style, but for glasses wearers, this can get a little tricky.

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The Benefits Of Vitamin A And Beta-Carotene

Have you been keeping an eye out for the best vitamins for maintaining healthy vision?

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An Active Lifestyle For Healthy Eyes

One of the best things you can do to keep your eyes healthy is to keep your body active!

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Lifting The Fog Around Cataracts

Cataracts are the world’s leading cause of blindness.

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Swimming Pool Eye Safety Tips

School’s out and it’s time for summer!

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Enjoy The Fireworks (But Protect Your Eyes)

The Fourth of July is a wonderful day to enjoy good food, good company, and, of course, an awe-inspiring fireworks display.

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Seeing Stars? Could Be An Ocular Migraine

If you’ve ever had a series of bright, flickering lights gradually obscure your vision and then go away, you might have had an ocular migraine.

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What Are Eyebrows And Eyelashes For?

According to one MIT study, people might have a hard time identifying you if you didn’t have your eyebrows!

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Finding Your Perfect Summer Shades

Summer is a great time to get some cool sunglasses and relax on the beach, but we should really be wearing our sunglasses all year.

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Use Your Frames To Give You Your Best Look

Those of us who wear glasses know what a difference they can make to the way our faces look.

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UV Rays And Our Vision

With summer just around the corner, a lot of us are probably looking forward to getting a lot of sun.

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The Mechanics Of Eyesight

Our eyes are amazing, complicated organs.

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Why We Need Tears

We tend to only think of tears when something makes us cry, whether we’re watching a touching or tragic movie or we’re laughing so hard that our eyes water.

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Protecting Our Eyes From Allergies

Spring is here! Unfortunately, for many of us, spring comes with seasonal allergies that leave our eyes red, puffy, and itchy.

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Let’s Look At Women’s Eye Health

We all know there are differences between men and women, but it might surprise you that some of those differences have to do with our eyes!

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Flaxseed Oil Or Fish Oil For Dry Eye?

If you’ve ever been near the pharmacy in a grocery store, you’ve probably seen the aisles of nutrition supplements for sale.

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Computer Glasses For Digital Eye Strain

You’ve heard of reading glasses. You’ve heard of sunglasses. But what are computer glasses?

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Protecting Your Eye Health While You Work

March is Workplace Eye Wellness Month, and we want to make sure our patients have all the information they need to protect their eyes at work!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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All About Those Lenses

Let’s face it: glasses and contact lenses are pretty amazing.

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Nearsightedness & Myopia

If you’ve ever struggled to read a road sign from a distance or a clock from across the room, you may be facing the same condition as 40% of Americans. Myopia, or nearsightedness, is your eye’s lack of ability to focus on things more than a few feet away.

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MiBo Flow, A New Form of Dry Eye Treatment

You know the feeling - you blink repeatedly expecting relief for your eyes, but all you get is sandpaper. You buy eye drops expecting to be soothed, but they only bring relief for a few seconds. Dry eyes are one of the most common eye conditions today, and one of the hardest to ignore.

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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?

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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.

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The Different Types Of Contact Lenses

Compared to all the different frame styles and lens shapes of glasses, it might seem like contact lenses are much simpler.

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Glaucoma 101: Eyes Under Pressure

Human eyesight is an incredibly complex system, and a problem anywhere along the way can lead to seriously compromised vision.

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6 Ways To Protect Your Eyesight

One of the most essential things we can do to maintain our quality of life is protect our eyesight.

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Warning Signs Of Child Vision Problems

An estimated 60 percent of children with learning difficulties have undiagnosed vision problems, and 80 percent of learning is visual.

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Autoimmune Disease And Vision

An autoimmune disease is a disorder that causes the immune system to mistake healthy cells for dangerous pathogens and attack them.

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Our Top Tips For Winter Eye Safety

Because it’s so much colder outside in winter, our instinct might be to assume that we’re safe from damage from the sun.

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Your Child’s Vision Development

None of us is born with fully developed eyesight.

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Staying Ahead Of Age-Related Vision Loss

Have you noticed any changes in your eyesight in the last few years?

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Saving Your Sight With Eye Exams

It'™s no secret that as we age, our eyesight suffers. Fortunately, there's a lot we can do to preserve our vision.

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Vision And Night Driving

Nights are long in the winter, and that means fewer hours of daylight for our morning and evening commutes.

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Diabetes And Eye Health

November is Diabetes Awareness Month, and that means it's time to talk about how diabetes impacts eye health.

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Our Emotions And The Colors We See

The colors we see and the emotions we feel have an interesting and complex relationship.

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Sleep And Eye Health

When we don't get a good night's sleep, we can really feel it in the morning.

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Costume Contact Lens Dos And Don'ts

A pair of colored contact lenses can be the perfect final touch to a great Halloween costume.

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The Wide Spectrum Of Visual Impairment

Most of the time, when we hear the word "blind," we think that means total blindness, but it's not always that simple.

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Home Eye Safety Tips

Eye protection is easy to remember at work or when we play sports, but what about when we're at home?

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Is Makeup Bad For Our Eyes?

People have been using makeup to enhance their unique, natural features for thousands of years.

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3D Movies And Our Eyes

Have you ever wondered how 3D movies work?

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When To Schedule An Eye Exam

How long has it been since your last eye exam? A year? Two? Longer?

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The Importance Of Sports Eye Safety

When playing sports, we often take precautions to protect our arms, legs, fingers, and so on from unnecessary damage.

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