Benefits Of PRK Laser Eye Surgery

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With PRK, your eye surgeon removes the top layer of your cornea, known as epithelium. Your surgeon then uses a laser to alter the rest of the layers of your cornea and correct any irregular curves that you have on your eyes.   With LASIK, your eye surgeon uses a laser or tiny blades to…

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Why Dr. Sandra Belmont Is The Best LASIK Surgeon In NYC

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Belmont Eye Center provides convenient tools and resources for patients seeking laser eye surgery in New York. The clinic offers various vision-correction procedures, with special emphasis on No-Cut LASIK, cataract surgery, and corneal disease treatments.   Since the LASIK eye surgery is performed on one of the most sensitive and vital organs in the body,…

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Being the change we want to see in ophthalmology

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[ad_1] I am proud to be an ophthalmologist. We are fortunate to be in a field that is at the forefront of technological advancement, research development, and surgical innovation in medicine.  However, though we lead in many aspects, ophthalmology has notoriously lagged behind other medical specialties with regards to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The statistics…

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Not your typical flight experience

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[ad_1] It’s not American or United, but the Orbis Flying Hospital carries on board hope and the gift of sight for patients in need of ophthalmic care around the globe. When it is not on a mission, the MD-10 aircraft often is situated at an airport where the fully accredited teaching facility is put to…

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World’s Best Eyesight: 5 Ways Animals Outrank Us

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Human eyes are complicated, powerful organs, but there are some animals that beat us to the punch when it comes to vision. While it is almost impossible to conclusively rank which animals have the best eyes, because eyesight encompasses such a broad spectrum of attributes, we can look at how some animals have exceptional vision…

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Prevent Blindness declares third annual Thyroid Eye Disease Awareness Week Nov. 14-20

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[ad_1] Prevent Blindness has declared Nov. 14-20, 2022, as its third annual “Thyroid Eye Disease Awareness (TED) Week.” TED, sometimes called Graves’ ophthalmopathy or Graves’ eye disease, is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system causes inflammation and swelling and stimulates the production of muscle tissue and fat behind the eye. According to the organization, to help…

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Prevent Blindness declares third annual Thyroid Eye Disease Awareness Week Nov. 14-20

Impact of treating AMD before visual function is impaired

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[ad_1] Japanese investigators led by first authors Risa Aichi, MD, and Norihiro Nagai, MD, reported that before the best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) decreases and advanced lesions develop in eyes with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the optimal time to begin treatment with anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) therapy to obtain better outcomes in the real-world clinic. …

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Vision in 3D

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[ad_1] So much has to go right as the human visual system develops. One of them is that many thousands of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) have to relay signals through the eye’s optic nerve via delicate projections, or axons, to precise locations on both sides of the brain that make visual sense of it all,…

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