Archive for June 2018

I am often asked in clinic about what causes the need for glasses. The basic answer is that light entering the eye does not get focused appropriately on the retina in the back of the eye. This is why adding a lens (like glasses or a contact lens) can help to appropriately focus that light.…

I previously posted about the New York Times article discussing LASIK. Since that time, the President of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons has submitted a letter to the editor that has been published. In order to follow up to the New York Times article, I think it is important that anyone who…

There was recently a New York Times article that discussed the risks of LASIK. As a community, ophthalmologists feel that the article did not provide a balanced assessment of LASIK. Certainly, LASIK is not without risks, and there are definitely patients who have long term eye surface problems (often lumped together as “dry eye”) following…

Over the years, we have seen many advertisements for eye jewelry. Sometimes this is placed inside the eyeball itself, and sometimes it is fixated to the outside of the eyeball. All of these types of procedures have a high risk for causing eye irritation. They might even cause infections, some of which can be vision-threatening.…