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When You Fail a DMV Vision Test
How Your Optometrist Can Help When You Fail a DMV Vision Test The importance of good vision to safe driving can’t be overstated. Did you know that up to 90% of the information you process to drive safely comes from your visual system? Whether it’s...
Seeing Spots?
What You Need to Know About Eye Floaters Have you ever looked up at a bright blue sky, a blank piece of paper, or a plain white wall and realized that you’re seeing strange knobby strings, cobwebs, or dark spots floating around in your field of vision? And because you’re curious about these “squiggles,” you try to track them visually, only to see them quickly dart away or drift slowly out of your visual field. It’s...
8 Tips To Protect Eye Health All Summer
Summer fun and summer chores are in full swing – school is out, vacations are planned, weekend events are on your calendar, and yard work is a weekly activity! Summer poses a number of threats to eye health and vision. You may have noticed itchy, red, or...
5 Questions About Cataracts
June is Cataract Awareness Month, a great opportunity to educate yourself on this eye condition that so many of us will experience in our lifetimes. By age 65, as many as 90% of people have at least one cataract forming. We’ve all heard the term cataract, but...
5 Proven Ways To Get Kids To Wear Sunglasses
If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you may already know that by the time your son or daughter reaches age 18, they’ve already received up to 80% of their entire lifetime’s worth of exposure to the sun’s damaging ultraviolet (UV) rays!...
Why Children Need High-Quality Sunglasses
May is Healthy Vision Month. A lifetime of healthy vision starts in childhood, by protecting your eyes from injury and damage and developing good eye health habits. Did you know that by the time your child turns 18, they have received 80% of their lifetime exposure to...
Learn How to Use Eye Drops in the “Blink of an Eye”
When it comes to eye drops, the “blink” of an eye is the problem – right? It sounds easy enough, but it’s not always as simple as following the recommended steps: Tilt your head back, look up, open your eye wide, and squeeze one tiny drop from...
8 Eye-Healthy Tips For Viewing The April 8 Solar Eclipse
As an optometric practice, we understand the excitement around the upcoming total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. Many major U.S. cities will be in total darkness when the moon passes directly between the Earth and the sun that day, including Dallas, Little Rock,...