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A Word of Caution on Costume Contacts

The right pair of colored lenses will make a great final touch to an amazing Halloween costume, but not all contact lenses are created equal, and we want to make sure our patients...


Makeup and Eye Safety

We’re very happy that modern makeup is free of ingredients like lead, arsenic, and mercury. Still, that doesn’t mean it’s all perfectly safe to have around the eyes...


Protecting Your Eyesight Over the Years

However, there’s a lot we can do to keep our eyes healthy, which is why we’d like to take a look at a few of the most common age-related vision and eye problems and what can be done to minimize the risks of developing them...


Animal Kingdom Eyesight Olympics

Instead of trying to identify one animal that has the best eyes overall, we’re breaking it up into categories: underwater vision, night vision...


Kids and Comprehensive Eye Exams

Most of us remember going to the school nurse as a child, covering one eye at a time, and reading off lines from the big E chart to find out if we needed glasses...


Convincing Your Child That Glasses Rule

Being able to see clearly might not always seem worth it to them compared to how strange the glasses feel on their nose and ears or what their peers think...


The Benefits of Vitamin a and Beta-carotene

The two most important ones for promoting eye health and preventing vision loss are vitamin A and beta-carotene. What are these vitamins and what makes them so special...


Swimming Pool Eye Safety Tips

For many of us, summertime means a lot of trips to the pool, but before we dive in, we should take a look at what we should be doing to protect our eyes while we’re cooling off underwater...


Enjoy the Fireworks (but Protect Your Eyes)

If we want to be able to keep enjoying the sight of the rockets’ red glare in future years, however, we need to make sure we’re not putting our eyes at unnecessary risk of injury...


Finding Your Perfect Summer Shades

Choosing the right pair of sunglasses is a little more complicated than finding the ones that best suit your style. Our first priority should always be finding the pair that offers the right protection for our eyes...