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Eye exams are crucial for catching eye diseases early and preventing severe vision loss. Glaucoma is one of the many eye diseases that can be significantly slowed or prevented with early detection. Generally speaking, the effects of glaucoma cannot be reversed, but several treatment options can help you preserve your vision.

How often you need to visit your eye doctor is dependent on factors such as your age, general eye health, and predisposition to eye diseases. Here are the various eye exams and how often you should get each eye exam.

It is always better to overreact than to underreact when it comes to your vision. Always contact your eye doctor if you have any questions about your eye health. If you do not have an eye doctor, quickly look for an ‘eye doctor clinic near me’ and book an appointment.

Your dentist has probably told you to get a cleaning and exam every six months, but how often should we get eye exams? Preventative care is as important for eye health as for dental health, even when you don’t need a new glasses or contact lens prescription. Our eyes are incredibly complex and ...

Among the many changes our bodies undergo as we get older are the changes to our eyesight. Early diagnosis is critical for stopping many sight-threatening conditions in their tracks, which is why we should be on the watch for signs of age-related vision loss. There are also more benign ways our e...

An estimated 90% of eye injuries are preventable if the right eye protection is worn. That means that 27,000 out of 30,000 sports-related eye injuries in America could be avoided by taking this one simple precaution. You might think of eye protection as something for welders or construction worke...

We wouldn’t have gone into the optometry field if we weren’t fascinated by eyes, and there are some incredible ones in nature. There is such incredible variation in how eyes work across the animal kingdom that we could spend years studying and barely scratch the surface, so to start out, we j...

Digital screens have become an increasingly prominent part of our lives in recent decades. Whether you work from home on your computer, work from an office on your computer, or simply own a smartphone, you are likely spending a significant portion of your day with your eyes fixed on a bright scre...

A staple of every school nurse’s office is the big E eye chart. That chart, the formal name of which is the Snellen chart (after the 19th-century Dutch eye doctor Herman Snellen who developed it), is certainly a good diagnostic tool for catching nearsightedness, but there are many other things ...

How much do you know about conjunctivitis (pink eye)? The main symptoms of pink eye are the redness that gives it its common name, itchiness, and either thick or watery discharge. Conjunctivitis is an inflammation of the clear outer layer of tissue that covers the surface of our eyes and the insi...