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July 30, 2017

Should you take supplements for eye health?

For every condition, there is a vitamin or a nutraceutical – or so it would seem on a visit to your local health food store! Since most of the capsules, pills and tinctures promise to improve health in some specific way, should you be taking one (or more) supplements each day to maintain and improve […]

July 29, 2017

Is a Black Eye After Eye Care Surgery Cause for Worry?

Does having a black eye give reason to book an eye exam with your Toronto eye clinic? Maybe. Will it the injury request vision-correcting laser eye surgery? Depends. Perhaps you’ve been lucky enough to never have had a shiner – a swollen bruise that occurs when fluids collect around the eye after an injury such […]

July 26, 2017

What are eye floaters…and why doesn’t everybody get them?

If you often get floaters, perhaps you’ve heard the advice to ‘just live with it, everybody gets them’. To some degree, that’s true: we’ve all seen eye floaters at one point or another – spots, lines, threads, or dots of various shapes and sizes floating in the eye – if only during eye exams, when […]

July 22, 2017

Glaucoma: Is Cannabis an Effective Solution?

As Toronto optometrists, we feel it’s our duty to report on cannabis’ effectively as a glaucoma treatment. With medical marijuana already legal in Canada and with recreational legalization imminently on the horizon, some Canadians are questioning whether cannabis, with its long association as a treatment for various medical conditions, can help their glaucoma, too. It’s […]

July 15, 2017

Help – I think I need bifocals!

Is it time to visit your Toronto eye clinic for an eye exam? If you’re thinking that you may need bifocals, then read on and find out. We’ve all seen people holding a brochure or restaurant menu out at arm’s length in order to read the fine print. But if you thought they were people […]

July 5, 2017

What’s Causing the Red Eye?

As one of the best Toronto optometrists, we’ve seen our fair share of red eyes and we think you’ll probably agree when we say: No one likes to have red eyes. Whether caused by fatigue from an overnight flight, allergies, or captured in a photo due to a camera’s improper exposure, if we have red […]