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Prevent Sports-Related Eye Injuries

Did you know there are roughly 40,000 sports-related eye injuries every year in the U.S. alone? Eye protection is important for everyone with an active lifestyle, but especially for young people who play a school sport. In fact, most victims of sports-related eye injuries are children. Sport...

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. Whether we’re tired, our eyes feel dry or itchy, or there’s something stuck in one of them, it seems like the easiest way to make it feel better is to rub them a little. Unfortunately, doing that is ...

The Importance of Blinking

Do you know how many times you blink in a minute? Probably not off the top of your head, but it’s an important number, because blinking is essential to good eye health. On average, adults blink between 10 and 20 times every minute. Each blink only takes a tenth of a second, but it’s a very im...

How Headaches and Vision Are Connected

If you suffer from frequent headaches, it might be time to schedule an eye exam. For many people, headaches can be a symptom of uncorrected vision problems. This doesn’t happen in all cases of uncorrected or undiagnosed vision problems, and of course not all headaches are caused by vision probl...

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. In fact, in a briefing before the US Congress, eye doctors, dermatologists, surgeons, and other physicians spoke about the dangers of indoor tanning, and the World Health Organization ...

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. Depending on what type of job you have, your eyes will face different risks of health issues or injury, so we want to approach this in two broad categories: office jobs...

Why Eye Exams?

Whether you wear corrective lenses or not, regular eye exams are critical for maintaining good eye health! March is Save Your Vision Month, which makes it a great time to take a closer look at a few of the biggest reasons to make sure an eye exam makes it into our schedules at least every other y...

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. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) causes the gradual loss of central vision through the deterioration of the macula, or the part of the retina that gives us our sharp, deta...

Lens Care Tips

Corrective lenses are wonderful things that allow us to enjoy the advantages of good eyesight, and we need to take good care of them. Whether you wear glasses or contact lenses, we want to offer you a few tips on how to make sure they last as long as they should so you can get the most out of the...

What Does Being Colorblind Mean?

Just because someone is colorblind, it doesn’t mean they see the world like a black-and-white movie. That type of color blindness does exist and is called monochromacy, but it is by far the rarest form of color blindness. There are different ways it can happen, just like there are different way...

What Causes Heterochromia?

Eye color is one of the first traits we notice when we meet someone new. If you’ve ever met someone with two different eye colors, then you’ve seen what heterochromia looks like. Only three out of every five hundred people have it, though, so it’s not that common (but you might have seen an...

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Prevent Sports-Related Eye Injuries

How Germs Can Travel to Our Eyes

The Importance of Blinking

How Headaches and Vision Are Connected

Indoor Tanning and Eye Health and Safety

Are You Protecting Your Eyes at Work?

Why Eye Exams?

A Crash Course on AMD

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What Does Being Colorblind Mean?

What Causes Heterochromia?

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Prevent Sports-Related Eye Injuries

How Germs Can Travel to Our Eyes

The Importance of Blinking

How Headaches and Vision Are Connected

Indoor Tanning and Eye Health and Safety

Are You Protecting Your Eyes at Work?

Why Eye Exams?

A Crash Course on AMD

Lens Care Tips

What Does Being Colorblind Mean?

What Causes Heterochromia?

All Eye Care Services

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