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. We know the struggle. Makeup styles that would look fantastic on someone without glasses [...]
An estimated 60 percent of children with learning difficulties have undiagnosed vision problems, and 80 percent of learning is visual. This puts these children at a serious disadvantage in their education and their social development. So what can we do as parents [...]
Frequently asked questions HOW NEW ARE RIGID CORNEAL LENSES? Rigid lenses were the first contact lenses to be invented. Many of our patients have been happily wearing them for decades. Modern day rigid lenses use advanced lathe technology, breathable lens [...]
Those of us who wear glasses know what a difference they can make to the way our faces look. Some of our friends might even have trouble recognizing us without our glasses at first. Because our glasses have such a [...]
School’s out and it’s time for summer! For many of us, summer time means a lot of trips to the pool, but before we dive in, we should take a look at what we should be doing to protect our [...]
Many people stop using contact lenses because of: poor unstable vision, fluctuating vision, dry eyes, red eyes, allergies, and or uncomfortable contact lenses. Custom made Rigid Gas Permeable (RGP) Scleral contact lenses work for many patients! ASTIGMATISM & POOR UNSTABLE, [...]
The Fourth of July is a wonderful day to enjoy good food, good company, and, of course, an awe-inspiring fireworks display. If we want to be able to keep enjoying the sight of the rockets’ red glare in future years, [...]
Our eyes are amazing, complicated organs. Many different parts have to work together to convert the light bouncing off everything around us into a continuous stream of images that we can understand. What are these different parts and how do [...]
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. We typically think of migraines as the painful headaches that affect about 10 percent of [...]
With summer just around the corner, a lot of us are probably looking forward to getting a lot of sun. However, it’s important to be careful not to expose our eyes (or our skin) to too much ultraviolet radiation, as [...]
