Category: General

When you experience a problem, it can be natural to not see a solution, but consider the possibilities. If your eyesight has begun to become a problem, you can take on help in the form of professional eye care and handle the situation with relative ease. Just as you’ve handled numerous problems in the past, […]

Many people are afraid that if they use the services that an eye specialist can offer, particularly if it involves the use of surgery, that they could be harmed instead of helped. Corrective surgery conjures up images of scalpels, having to be put into a state of general anesthesia and of having a lengthy recovery […]

Smartphones come as wonderful devices and have saved many lives, but excessive use does have a correlation to some conditions. Excessive use of cell phones has been shown in some individuals to possibly develop cataracts or cancer. This happens because of the exposure to the radiation inside cell phones. Cell phones are known to emit […]

According to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, June is UV Safety Month. While every month in the parts of the world where the sun comes up every day could reasonably be called a UV Safety Month, the summertime is a particularly harsh season due to the most direct angle […]

Unlike other inventions, spectacles or eyeglasses have, ironically, an unclear history. Although there are many individuals who have been associated with its development over the years, there is no single person who can be credited for its invention. History shows that the Vikings were actually using some kind of device that magnified objects. 13th Century […]

Also called the Purkinje Shift, this condition is the tendency of the eyes to loser their color contrasting abilities on the change of luminance. Sensitivity to luminance causes the eyes vision to shift towards the blue section of the color spectrum when the illumination levels are low. This means that the Purkinje Effect induces color […]

Most people have the same set of eye colors. I, for instance, have both brown eyes. However, a rare few happen to have mismatched eye colors. Their right eye color is different than their left eye color. In medical parlance, this condition is called heterochromia, from the Latin ‘hetero’, which means many, and ‘chromia’, which […]

The common confusion that people with eye problems have is to choose between LASIK and PRK. Often, patients don’t have the proper information on these procedures. The former is classified as a flap procedure and the latter is a surface procedure. A flap procedure requires the creation of a flap on the cornea and a […]