By Dr. Gary Goberville Many Children are ready around 10 years of age. If you think the answer may be yes, as a parent, you must first ask these 3 questions. 1) Does your son/daughter really want them? 2) Are they persistent enough to learn to touch their eye to put the contacts on? 3) (and most …
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Consider the gift of an EYE EXAM and give sight to a special child or adult in your life. A top reason for a child’s poor school performance is poor vision. Ten million school children in America have vision conditions that impact learning. Their first comprehensive eye assessment should be at six months of age. …
By Dr. Gary Goberville Blinking helps lubricate and moisten our eyes so they don’t feel dry. If you’ve experienced hot, dry winds blowing into your face, you know that unpleasant “sandpaper eyes” feeling. For some, that feeling of dry, irritated eyes stays with us. Sometimes eyes don’t produce enough tears to moisten and those tears …
By Dr. Gary Goberville Technological advances create incredible new solutions…but cause new difficulties as well. Modern-day computing and the Internet allow us to handle more information than ever before. All this productivity means we spend a lot of time staring at screens; our work computers, our laptops and our smartphones. This isn’t good for our eyes. …
By Dr. Gary Goberville The Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) is a major clinical trial sponsored by the National Eye Institute, one of the federal government’s National Institutes of Health. The AREDS was designed to learn more about the natural history and risk factors of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and cataract and to evaluate the …
By Dr. Gary Goberville Prevent Blindness America reports that hospital emergency rooms treat more than 40,000 eye injuries every year that are sports-related. When it comes to sports injury treatment, even professionals don’t usually think about a players eyesight. However, even non-contact sport such as tennis or biking can present inherent dangers to the eyes. …
