Just had surgery and wondering what to do with your once well-loved glasses? We get it. Throwing them away feels like a waste, but keeping them tucked in a drawer isn’t helping anyone either. At […]

In 1987, Americans began enjoying the benefit of disposable contact lenses. A Johnson & Johnson company called Vistakon, Inc. introduced Acuvue disposable soft contact lenses. For the first time, Americans could enjoy comfortable contact lenses. […]

People wear contact lenses to address a wide range of refractive errors, including nearsightedness (myopia), farsightedness (hyperopia), astigmatism, and presbyopia. In some conditions, they are used to treat eye diseases and corneal injury. They are […]

I Don’t Want to Take any Risks! Many times I hear patients say that they don’t want to take any risk. Risk is something that we can not avoid and must evaluate every day and […]

I often get the question from my patients at their free comprehensive LASIK exam preoperatively asking, “Can I wear contacts after LASIK?“ This is an interesting question because contact lenses after LASIK?? Why would you […]

Dry eyes with contact lenses is an extremely common occurrence and accounts for about 60% of our patients who are seeking vision correction surgery such as LASIK, PRK, ICL, RLE (refractive lens exchange) and Intraocular […]

Contact lenses have been in use for over 100 years. The materials, colors, sizes and fitting has improved dramatically. Contacts have become very thin, oxygen permeable, comfortable, and can correct a wide variety of prescriptions […]

Glasses have been around for hundreds of years, (anyone remember Ben Franklin?) but a higher percentage of young people are needing glasses for vision problems than ever before. Vision problems tend to increase as we […]