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Jul

How Pollen Affects Your Eyes

When spring comes, people often think of trees budding, grass growing and flowers blossoming. For those who suffer from pollen allergies, spring means red, swollen, and itchy eyes and avoiding the outdoors at any cost. Although pollen affects the eyes negatively, there are soluti...

Jul

Factors to Consider When Thinking About LASIK

For patients looking to improve their vision while reducing or eliminating their dependence on glasses or contact lenses, LASIK offers an effective option. If you're thinking about undergoing to the LASIK procedure, take a look at some factors you must first consider.About...

Jul

LASEK to Reduce Night Blindness

For those who have difficulty seeing clearly in the dark, there's a laser vision correction procedure that can shrink the size of your pupil in order to maximize contrast sensitivity. Wavefront, a customized version of LASEK, offers those who have difficulty seeing at night...

Jul

Why Patients Should Choose An Ophthalmologist for BOTOX® Cosmetic Injections

BOTOX® Cosmetic injections are most popularly known for reducing the appearance of wrinkles in certain areas of the face. Originally, BOTOX was developed by a team of ophthalmologists to treat various conditions of the eye. As it appeared, patients who were treated with BOTOX...

Jul

4 Things You Need to Know About Glaucoma

Glaucoma refers a group of diseases that cause damage to the optic nerve of the eye, often leading to vision loss and eventual blindness. Glaucoma may also develop following a severe eye infection, or inflammatory conditions of the eye. The most common symptoms of this condition...

Jul

What You Should Know About Blepharitis

While we all worry about the health of our eyes, few people ever think about keeping their eyelashes or eyelids healthy. Blepharitis is a chronic inflammation, or infection, of the eyelids and eyelash follicles. Let's take some time now to answer common questions patients h...

Jul

What is LASEK?

Laser Epithelial Keratomileusis, or LASEK, is a fairly new vision correction procedure which combines elements of two better-known vision correction procedures: LASIK and Photorefractive Keratectomy Eye Surgery (or “PRK”), and it is primarily performed to treat astigm...

Jul

I was told I have a cataract. What should I do?

Every day in my ophthalmology practice in Brooklyn I see people who are not clear about the nature of a very common eye condition called cataract. I would like to address this issue, explain what cataract is, and discuss how we treat it and most importantly when to tr...

Jul

I am seeing flying spots – Am I imagining things?

“Doctor, I think I am going crazy, I keep seeing a black fly and when I try to hit it, it's not there, and then a second later it reappears again!”Almost every day I get a patient complaining of seeing spots in their eyes. Especially in the summer, since...

Jul

LASIK / LASEK and Soccer (and other sports)

Soccer fans in Brooklyn, Queens, other areas of New York City, as well as in the world are enjoying watching soccer during World Cup 2010. With soccer appreciation in New York and around the world being at the all time high right now, some of my patients are starting to won...

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