The cornea is the outermost layer of the eye: the clear dome that covers the front of the eye and works to focus your vision. It is the part that is reshaped during laser eye surgery and the part that feels itchy or irritated when your eyes are too dry. But for people who have […]
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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 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 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 […]
May 20, 2017
What is Wavefront LASIK?
With all the various clinics employing different types of laser eye surgery, it can be difficult to know which one is right for you. Some patients have a laissez-faire attitude towards their surgery; after all, doesn’t your laser eye surgeon automatically use the latest most effective technology to perform the procedure? Yes, but there are […]
May 14, 2017
Understanding your eyeglass prescription
After your eye exam, the doctor hands you a small slip of paper covered with confusing numbers. You take it, without even looking at it, straight to your optician, who uses it to make your next pair of lenses. At no time do you understand any part of the process. Sound familiar? While you don’t […]
An eye exam can detect whether you need prisms
If you have trouble reading anything for more than a couple of minutes – if you can’t seem to focus, or get headaches while reading, or find that the words jump around in a blur – but you’re totally fine doing other normal daily activities, you might need lenses with prisms. A comprehensive eye exam […]
March 25, 2017
Are toric contact lenses right for you?
If you have astigmatism, you may need special soft contact lenses called toric lenses to help you see better. These lenses are custom designed to fit your unique-shaped eye and provide clear vision throughout the day. Toric lenses do not come without their challenges and this fact makes it even more important to have these […]
March 6, 2017
Macular Degeneration: How We Can Help
Age-related macular degeneration, or AMD for short, is an eye condition that affects 1.4 million Canadians, making it the leading cause of vision loss in Canada. The disease attacks central vision, leaving patients with their peripheral vision but compromising their ability to perform such everyday tasks as driving, reading, watching television, seeing colours, and recognizing […]
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