The FDA just approved a new refractive lens implant for use in cataract surgery to improve vision at near, intermediate, and far distances without glasses, bifocals, reading glasses, or contacts. This new lens is the Tecnis Symphony IOL (intraocular lens) and it already has been approved in 50 other countries. It aims to offer superior […]

We are honored to be quoted in a recent LIVESTRONG.com article on vision, glasses, contacts, and headaches. This excellent article by Kate Bayless discusses various causes of headaches and makes the specific point that headaches can be caused by an over-corrected prescription in your glasses or contact lenses, which causes overworking of the eye’s internal focusing muscles […]

Due to the specialty nature of my practice, I am referred patients who have experienced problems with their LASIK performed in other places. One of the most difficult problems to correct after LASIK is called ectasia.  Ectasia is a rare complication seen when LASIK is performed in an abnormally weak cornea. In ectasia, the cornea becomes distorted to the […]

The FDA just approved Xiidra (lifitegrast) eye drops, the first new dry eye prescription medicine approved in over a decade and only the second prescription medicine approved by the FDA to treat dry eye. The only other previously approved medicine to treat dry eye is Restasis, which also is an eye drop. Over one thousand patients were […]

The FDA announced today that it had approved the Raindrop corneal inlay as a treatment for presbyopia — the age related loss of the ability to see up close without reading glasses (cheaters). Presbyopia is caused by the gradual stiffening of the human lens, which sits inside the eye behind the pupil. Generally it starts […]