As Contact Lens Health week continues here at the Center for Excellence in Eye Care, we wanted to share some very interesting contact lens 411 with our patients! Question 1: Q: How many people in America do you think wake up every day and put contact lenses in their eyes? A: 45 Million people Take… Read More

Continuing to pay tribute to Contact Lens Health, here are some REAL stories from our office: Good at Numbers (by Frank Spektor, MD) 33 years ago, a patient with very deep-set eyes showed up to our office and complained to me about some mucus discharge coming from his eyes.  This patient was a contact lens… Read More

It’s Contact Lens Health Week and we at The Center for Excellence in Eye Care promised to share this next crazy contact lens story with you last week.  If you read our last contact lens blog, we went from a lens being lost for 28 years to 27 contact lenses here. We constantly get the… Read More

A recent article published in Australia really made us think we needed to share some information with our patients and our followers about contact lens safety.  We get calls and questions about patients who believe contact lenses may be stuck in “backs of their eyes”.  None of these stories are meant to frighten you, they… Read More

Dr. Richard Simon was interviewed just a few weeks ago by PBS on the Baptist Health Channel. His interview covers so many incredible topics that we are asked by our patients everyday.  It begins with what technology has caused us…”Computer Vision Syndrome” or “CVS” which is something the majority of our patients have suffered symptoms… Read More

Patients who have recently had their cataract surgery with us, always share some incredible aspects of what changed in their lives after their surgeries, what they can see better now, how the colors are brighter and everything is “crisper.” Not so often is it that we find articles in the New York Times where an… Read More

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute hosted a meeting titled Interactive Consultations in Cornea & Refractive Surgery, in February of this year. Two of our surgeons are both considered Bascom Palmer Institute faculty as “Voluntary Assistant Professors of Ophthalmology.” They presented the latest research on 2 very relevant, talked about topics in ophthalmology right now. Dr. William… Read More

It really blows us away when friends and family members tell us it has been “years” since they see their eye doctor. How would your life change if we told you this is all you could see? Do you know what the leading cause of preventable blindness is? Well, it’s Diabetic retinopathy and if it… Read More

An amazing new article in Optometric Management by Dr. Douglas Devries, OD featured a study conducted by our very own Dr. William Trattler, MD. The study consisted of 143 prospective cataract patients in 9 centers across the US in 2011.  These patients were evaluated for dry eye by multiple measurements that we use including Tear… Read More

Eyes are the window to more than just your soul according to a recent, very interesting article featured on Healthgrades.com. 8 diseases are listed which all can affect your eyes and vision.  In fact, some of these symptoms have ophthalmologists becoming the first in the line of diagnosis determiners of major diseases. And guess what? … Read More