Archive for February 2026

I often hear a question after cataract surgery: can I wear my old glasses? When the question is asked, I start looking through what the patient should be seeing after surgery through their pre-op glasses and what that entails…. …but I am missing the main purpose of the question. What patients often mean with that…

In cataract surgery today, stitches are rarely used. “What??? How is my eye supposed to stay intact after surgery when there are no stitches???” The method of creating incisions that most surgeons use involves creating a self-sealing angled incision. The incision is essentially square in ideal formation, being as long tunneling through the tissue as…

Today, my 6 year old daughter was running around and talking about the “greasy eyes” of one of her toys. Then I thought… can people have “greasy eyes”? Well, it may not be an exactly apt description, but many people have meibomian gland dysfunction. The meibomian glands are oil glands that are located at the…

There is a very characteristic association between a particular type of brain tumor and a particular type of vision loss. There are brain tumors that can form at the “bottom” of the brain in the pituitary gland area. When these grow, they push on the neurons of the optic nerves as they travel back to…