As an eye doctor, I spend a lot of my day looking at my patients’ retinal blood vessels. We do this with a Dilated Eye Exam or by using Optomap technology. An Optomap is an excellent method of assessing blood vessels as this technology provides a panoramic...
Almost every pregnant woman has read somewhere that pregnancy hormones can affect her glasses or contact lens prescription. Because of this a pregnant woman may delay necessary eye care. I have found pregnancy usually does not affect glasses or contact lens...
Yesterday, the Wall St Journal, in it’s Personal Journal section, reported something eye doctors have known for a long time–changes in the eye may signal diseases elsewhere in the body. These diseases include diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease,...