It’s that time of year again! Time to be creative and bring out your inner demons or fairies – depending on what you prefer. Creating the best look is often in the details and costume contact lenses are often a big part of bringing together the costume. They are great for completing your look and […]
Category Archives: Optometry Blog
We all love picking out frames (well most of us) because it’s the most fun part of the whole process. Where things get confusing and where customers often get taken advantage of is the lens selection. Optics is a whole different technical language and one that the everyday person probably doesn’t understand. There are so […]
For many of us, we go to see the optometrist to get a prescription for glasses. We do the “1 or 2” test and then we get some numbers printed out on a piece of paper we know to be our “glasses prescription”. But what do the numbers mean? Patients are often told you’re “far-sighted”, […]
As professionals, all optometrists go through standard schooling to achieve their optometric doctorate. We would like to think that “all optometry clinics are the same” but unfortunately they are not. All optometrists offer “comprehensive eye exams” but what’s included in that? Are you getting the same service at every office you visit? What’s different and […]
As children, we are always taught “safety first!” whether it’s to look twice before crossing the street or to wear lab goggles when performing science experiments – we were always reminded about being safe and watched over. Now as adults in the work force, we are largely responsible for our own safety. Although it is […]
Most people get their eyes checked and purchase new glasses once every two years or so if you think about it, it’s really only $1 a day (or less) that you’ve spent to ensure you can see properly and are protecting your eyes from day to day elements (ie. blue light or UV depending on the lens material). So […]
September is children’s vision month! We would like to bring some awareness to why it is so important for children to have their eyes checked annually by an optometrist. It is not enough for children to simply have a screening at school because many problems that children can develop are not diagnosed based on if […]
Now that summer has mostly arrived, I think that it’s important that we talk about how to protect our eyes from ultraviolet (UV) damage. For many of us, summer time is when we spend the most time outside as children, adults, and seniors. It is important that at all ages we protect our eyes from […]
To continue our topic on blue light, we know that spending a lot of time exposed to it can have negative side effects not only on our ocular health, but also on our bodies as a whole. So we’ve come up with solutions to protect our eyes, because realistically our jobs require us to spend […]
So now that we’ve talked about what blue light is and how it affects us as adults, I wanted to talk specifically about how it negatively affects children. Little humans now a day are much more exposed to electronics than we (90’s and older children) were at the same age – computers were only just […]