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Preventative Eye Care is Key to Long-term Vision

There are several ways in which you can take care of your vision now so your vision will last as long as you do. With age, preventative eye care becomes more important than at any time in your life. There are steps you can take to prevent eye problems and blindness:

Visit a qualified Eye Doctor Regularly - Once a year for those who have normal vision
Wear Tinted Sunglasses and a Wide Brimmed Hat - Keep the sun out of your eyes
Take Care of Your Overall Health - Stop Smoking, Eat Healthy Foods, and Exercise

It's also important that your eye care professional be an experienced, licensed eye care specialist certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology. All of the eye care professionals featured at Eye Surgery USA are qualified, experienced professionals - guaranteed.

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Labels: eye care, Find Lasik Surgeon, preventing vision problems, vision problems

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Monday, April 13, 2009

Vision Problems To Keep an Eye On

Eyesight is oftentimes something we take for granted. Even if we wear corrective lenses like glasses or contacts, perfect vision is something most people enjoy, but there are certain tell-tell signs that your vision is getting worse.

Here are a few changes in your vision you should keep an 'eye' on (from www.preventblindnessamerica.org):

Unusual trouble adjusting to dark rooms;
Difficulty focusing on near or distant objects;
Squinting or blinking due to unusual sensitivity to light or glare;
Recurrent pain in or around eyes;
Double vision;
Dark spot at the center of viewing;
Lines and edges appear distorted or wavy;
Excess tearing or "watery eyes";
Dry eyes with itching or burning; and
Seeing spots, ghost-like images.

These can indicate very serious problems with your vision and should be examined by your eye doctor immediately.

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Labels: Blade-Less LASIK, prevent blindness america, preventative eye examinations, vision problems

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Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Anatomy of the Eye and Vision Errors

Recent advances in refractive surgery are designed to permanently reduce or eliminate the need for corrective eye wear to see objects clearly. Today, more than 3 million corneal refractive procedures are performed worldwide each year. Presently, more than 100 million patients wear contact lenses for correction of their refractive errors.

To better understand refractive surgeries, one should understand how a perfectly normal eye (20/20) focuses light and what are different types of refractive errors? Let us first understand the main components of eye.

The article by Union City Eye Correction Surgeon Shobha Tandon, MD covers the anatomy of the eye and common refractive errors such as cataracts, near and far-sightedness. To read more, please click here.

Labels: anatomy of the eye, dr. tandon, vision problems

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Monday, January 12, 2009

Is LASIK Corrective Eye Surgery Right for You?

There's a good chance that if you've found this blog, you're thinking of improving your eyesight in some way.

Perhaps you're tired of wearing contacts or glasses and you would like to participate in activities such as swimming, running or other sports without having to worry about breaking your glasses or wearing special lenses. Perhaps you're you tired of spending hundreds of dollars every year on expensive solutions and contacts?

Perhaps LASIK Corrective Eye Surgery is right for you!

LASIK is a minimally invasive surgical procedure that reduces and in most cases eliminates the dependency on vision assisted appliances such as glasses and contact lenses.

Here at Eye Surgery USA, we only feature licensed, skilled and experienced corrective eye surgeons, so you can rest assured that you'll find the best doctors in your area. Once you find a doctor you like, you can contact them directly and schedule a confidential, personalized consultation to see what corrective eye surgery can do for you.

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Labels: Blade-Less LASIK, corrective eye technology, LASIK Laser Eye Surgeon Search, vision blog, vision correction, vision problems

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Thursday, January 8, 2009

Nearsighted or Farsighted - Which is it?

Are you nearsighted or farsighted? Can you read without glasses, or do you need help? Is driving a challenge because you can't see the signs?
When it comes to vision, it's important to understand the nature of your own vision challenges.

Perfect Vision

When one has an emmetropic eye, the patient sees perfectly or 20/20. The light rays are focused exactly onto the retina for a clear view of objects.

Myopic Eye

In the nearsighted (myopic) eye, objects appear out of focus because the focal point of the eye is located in front of the retina. Because of this, properly focused light rays cannot reach the retina, resulting in blurred vision. With refractive LASIK surgery, the surgeon utilizes a laser to reshape the eye so that the rays will diverge onto the retina. PRK can also accomplish this adjustment, however LASIK surgery is ideal. Both PRK and LASIK require use of a laser, however LASIK is performed under a protective flap. With PRK, the outer cells of the eye are scraped off prior to vision correction, leading to an increased risk of vision haze and months of eye drops. The LASIK treated eye usually requires drops for only about four days after the procedure and provides almost immediate visual recovery. The excimer laser can also be used to treat astigmatism, or irregular curvature of the cornea.

Astigmatic Eye

In the farsighted (hyperopic) eye, the ideal focal point for light is located behind the retina and light rays cannot converge enough to focus on the proper area of the eye. Using the excimer laser under the protective flap of LASIK, our surgeons are able to alter the shape of the eye so that light rays converge perfectly onto the retina, resulting in clear vision.

Check out more helpful topics on Eye Surgery USA's information-dense Laser Eye Surgery Blog, as well as helpful Articles on all aspects of corrective eye procedures at Eye Surgery USA.

Labels: Blade-Less LASIK, vision problems, vison correction

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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Familiar Vision Problems

Over half the population of the United States experiences one or more common visual acuity problems. Generally, people with visual acuity problems are nearsighted, farsighted, and/or have astigmatism. Collectively, these conditions are medically referred to as lower order aberrations. Lower order aberrations are usually corrected by wearing glasses, contact lenses or by laser vision correction.

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Friday, May 29, 2009