Archive for March 2026

Recently, I had a patient who had a thin spot in her cornea. This thin spot was a damaged area that was related to not having good sensation in the eye. When the front surface of the eye does not have good sensation, it does not have sufficient autoregulatory feedback loops to keep itself lubricated.…

I believe I have mentioned this before, but I just heard about a great patient story that made me want to bring it up again. Keratoconus is a condition in which the cornea distorts out of shape and adopts more of a cone shape, which can cause the vision to really go haywire. One of…

Eyelash extensions are a definite infection risk. Recently, I read a thread on an ophthalmology forum all about how eyelash extensions are a bad infection risk and absolutely cannot be tolerated in a peri-operative setting. Get rid of them! We ophthalmologists don’t like eyelash extensions. If they have to be used, they should not be…

Gerhard Meyer-Schwickerath was a German ophthalmologist. In 1949, he used light coagulation to operate on a human eye. How did he do this? He placed a telescope on the roof of the surgery building. The telescope focused sunlight, and the focused light that came out of the telescope was then redirected using a series of…