Ojos sanos

Spanish speaking patients and physicians now have a public education website in their own language, sponsored by the American Academy of Ophthalmology, with this week's launch of OjosSanos.org. The new site provides a MD reviewed information about more than 50 diseases and conditions, plus vision-correction information, tips on maintaining healthy vision  and more than 80 short videos.

The new website is www.ojossanos.org

The same information and more, in English, is also available as always in EyeSmart at www.geteyesmart.org

January is Glaucoma Awareness Month

Glaucoma damages your optic nerve. When enough nerve fibers have been lost, you may experience loss of your peripheral or side vision. However,  initially glaucoma is a silent disease, there may be no symptoms to warn you. If untreated, glaucoma can lead to blindness.

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Contact Lens Safety

Do you have questions regarding your contact lenses?  If so, the following website may be beneficial to you.  It is divided into five sections.

Section one addresses questions about replacement schedules and what could happen if they are not followed.  It also discusses what organisms are most dangerious to the eye and how to avoid complicaitons from them.

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Laser Cataract Surgery

"Laser Cataract Surgery" has been reported in the news recently, and there are many questions people have about this procedure. I will do my best to answer as many as possible.

First of all, you must understand that "Laser Cataract Surgery" does not replace regular cataract surgery at all. Instead, some steps that have been done manually (with excellent, reproducible outcomes) can now be done with a laser.

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Do you have a backup pair of glasses?

Sometimes we get calls from patients that broke their prescription glasses while out of town, and need their glasses to drive back home. Other times it is students that lost their frames and do not want to miss several days of school because they cannot see. The more you depend on your glasses, the more important it is to have a backup pair.

Think about it before it happens.