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Articles written by the optometrists here, covering the four things this practice specialises in. Every one is written to be useful rather than to rank, and every claim is one the practice would make in the room.
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Most people with keratoconus see well in specialty lenses and continue to do so. The three things that make the biggest difference day to day are wearing the lenses consistently, never rubbing your eyes, and keeping monitoring appointments.
Dr Callie Sincennes · August 12, 2026
A child who reads fine for ten minutes and then struggles usually has a stamina problem rather than a clarity problem. Convergence insufficiency and accommod...
Read more July 22, 2026The American Optometric Association and the Arizona Optometric Association both recommend a first comprehensive eye examination between six months and one ye...
Read more July 15, 2026Corneal topography builds a three dimensional map from over 20,000 points on the corneal surface. It detects keratoconus years before an eye chart does, and ...
Read more July 8, 2026Contact lenses should never touch tap water, bottled water, showers, pools or hot tubs. The organism at issue is acanthamoeba, which lives in ordinary water ...
Read more June 24, 2026Glaucoma damages the optic nerve gradually and produces no symptoms until a large share of peripheral vision has gone. Normal eye pressure does not rule it o...
Read more June 17, 2026Arizona does not cause dry eye but it reliably exposes it. Low ambient humidity, air conditioning, airborne dust and intense sun all accelerate tear film eva...
Read more June 10, 2026The retina is the only place in the body where blood vessels and nerve tissue can be seen directly without an incision. That makes an eye exam a genuine syst...
Read more May 27, 2026Optomap captures over 80 percent of the retina in a single image without dilating drops. That coverage matters because the most dangerous findings, retinal t...
Read more May 13, 2026All three myopia control methods slow axial elongation. The right one depends on whether the child also needs vision correction, how much handling the family...
Read more May 6, 2026Contact lenses should never be worn in water because of acanthamoeba infection risk, which leaves swimmers choosing between prescription goggles and Ortho-K....
Read more April 29, 2026Scleral lenses vault right over the cornea and rest on the white of the eye, which has far fewer nerve endings. That is why a lens twice the size of a normal...
Read more April 15, 2026Keratoconus is diagnosed from corneal imaging rather than from vision testing, because the characteristic corneal steepening appears on a topography map long...
Read more April 8, 2026Progressive lenses create unavoidable peripheral distortion as a consequence of changing power gradually down the lens. Adaptation means learning to point yo...
Read more April 1, 2026Drops failing is diagnostic information, not a dead end. It usually means the problem is evaporative dry eye caused by blocked eyelid oil glands, and adding ...
Read more March 25, 2026Long standing stable floaters are usually harmless. A sudden increase in floaters, new flashing lights, or a shadow moving across your vision can indicate a ...
Read more March 18, 2026An Ortho-K fitting runs across two to three appointments over two to four weeks. It starts with corneal topography rather than a prescription, because cornea...
Read more March 4, 2026A child's prescription rising every year means the eyeball is physically elongating. The length it reaches by adulthood permanently raises the lifetime risk ...
Read more February 18, 2026LASIK is genuinely excellent for the right candidate and a poor idea for the wrong one. The questions that matter most are about corneal thickness, prescript...
Read more February 4, 2026Most adults should have a comprehensive eye examination annually, and having perfect vision is the least reliable reason to skip one, because the conditions ...
Read more80 further titles are planned and deliberately not published yet. Publishing them as stubs would mean publishing 80 thin pages, so the slugs are reserved and the writing happens first.
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