Tag: contact lenses
Contact Lens Health Week – Sleeping in Contacts
Aug 22, 2018
Focusing on Contact Lens Safety
There’s a day, a week, or a month to celebrate or recognize almost anything these days. Turns out, optometrists are just as serious about celebrations as they are about…
Winter is Coming! How Well Can You See at Night?
Oct 24, 2018
Fall Back, Spring Forward, See the Difference
There are approximately 10 hours and 36 minutes of daylight today, October 24, 2018. In just a few short months that will be down to an annual low of 8 hours…
Go Into the Light… How Light Filtering Improves Visual Performance
Apr 18, 2019
"It's gonna be a bright, bright, bright, sunshiny day!"
We have all had the experience of walking outside into a bright sunny day, and squinting to try to adjust your eyes to the light. If we’re prepared,…
Buying Bifocals – What You Need to Know
Jun 14, 2019
First things first: nearly every person out there will experience some amount of vision deterioration as they age; it’s just one of the many things we all have to look forward to! That said, we’re not…
Tis’ the Season: BOE Gift Certificates for the Holidays
Dec 06, 2020
2020 HAS BEEN A DOOZY!
We’ve all been scrambling for months to figure out new and innovative ways to do the things we used to simply take for granted. We’re climbing the walls as we stay safe and stay…
LASIK Eye Surgery: What to Know and How to Decide
Jan 25, 2021
What is LASIK?
LASIK is shorthand for laser in-situ keratomileusis. It is a remarkably safe, outpatient refractive laser eye surgery that changes the shape of the cornea in your eye to correct common…
Astigmatism Defined Using Sports Analogies
Feb 27, 2021
What is Astigmatism?
Fun fact: In an ideal world, your eye is almost perfectly round, and the lens right at the front of it, the cornea, that’s perfectly rounded, too, like the outside edge of a ball.…