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November is National Diabetes Awareness Month. The American Diabetes Association works hard during the month to increase knowledge of the complications of diabetes.

Every August parents and children go through the familiar routine of preparing for the brand new school year. They take their school’s checklist to Wal-Mart, Target, etc. and triple check that all the necessary school supplies such as paper, pencils, and books are accounted for to ensure a successful academic year. Often left off the [...]

Gone are the days when filling an eye glasses prescription simply consisted of choosing between glass and plastic lenses, and putting those lenses in a plastic or metal frame.

Grittiness, burning, irritated, red, and itchy eyes are all too familiar complaints that we hear and see every day from patients at Doctors Vision Center. These are symptoms of dry eye disease and affect an estimated 10 million Americans nationwide. Dry Eye is a chronic eye disease caused from a lack of sufficient lubrication on [...]

New Year’s Eve is notoriously one of the worst times of the year for eye injuries. This fact is due to one tradition: The midnight champagne toast. Many people do not know how to correctly open a champagne bottle. When a bottle is opened improperly, the cork is expelled at a high velocity by the gas [...]

The holidays are a time when we all look forward to relaxing, attending parties, and spending time with the people we love. It should be a time of joy and celebration so don’t let a preventable eye injury ruin your time with your family and friends. Parents should be especially alert for potential holiday eye [...]

Optos is an ultra wide-field imaging technology now offered at Doctors Vision Center. This new technology is a unique way to look inside the eye. Like a panoramic picture, the Optos instrument takes wide-field images of the internal structures of the eye using specialized laser light. Optos technology helps your eye doctor make a more [...]

I am often questioned about what it means to have or not have 20/20 vision. A patient recently asked after an exam what it means that she has 20/100 vision and has problems seeing the board in class. I would like to share the answer I gave her hoping it will also clarify things for [...]

In 1998 Tim and Sandy Carter moved to Nicaragua to answer their calling to care for the children and build churches throughout the country. Currently two orphanages, one in Jinotega which houses the older girls and a few younger boys and one in Los Cedros, which houses the younger children, newborn to age 5. Between [...]

Glaucoma is not a disease of elevated intraocular pressure, It is a group of eye diseases that damage the optic nerve. Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness currently affecting some 3 million people in the United States and around 65 million people worldwide.  These numbers are expected to rise with the increased [...]