✨Frame selection! ✨ Why is proper frame selection so important? ❓ 1️⃣ Comfort Frames that are too big/small, temples that are too short,...

We do! And we recycle a lot of them!⁠ Elizabeth is holding a few boxes that we will be sending out to @terracycle for recycling.⁠ ✨⁠ How...

Do you know one eye disease that is completely silent until it is very severe?⁠ ❓⁠ Glaucoma.⁠ 🔻⁠ Glaucoma is a disease that damages your...

I had a patient say "I've never heard of dry eye"⁠ and I literally almost fell out of my chair. Clearly he doesn't follow me on social...

Dry eye disease is a widespread and common issue for up to 49 million Americans. This chronic condition can have a significant impact on...

Have you heard about Upneeq?⁠ 🤔⁠ This is a new prescription eye drop that helps raise droopy upper eyelids. ⁠ ✨⁠ Upneeq works well for...

Last week, I was doing my normal dry eye exam and asked the patient to close her eyes so I can examine them. She said confused, "wait,...

Did you know that I can predict the future?⁠ OK, not exactly but there is something I'm pretty confident will happen. I know that if you...

It's this screen! ⁠ 🖥️⁠ It's connected to a camera on my microscope and it's a wonderful patient education tool. I will often take...

Am I a candidate for LASIK?⁠ ❓⁠ I get this question on a weekly basis. There are several things that I look at to answer this but as a...

I was reading Malcolm Gladwell's book David and Goliath the other day and there was a quote that resonated with me. It read, "Giants are...

Absolutely.⁠ ✔️⁠ In fact, one very common symptom in dry eye patients is intermittent blurred vision, meaning your vision can go in and...

The headgear I'm wearing gets a lot of jokes from patients. And to their credit, it does look pretty intense once it's on.⁠ 💡⁠ What I'm...

Let me introduce you to Lumify! Lumify is an over-the-counter eye drop that helps whiten your eyes. Unlike Visine which can cause rebound...

Dry eye disease can be a result of something bigger happening in the body.⁠ ✅⁠ One thing I look for when I have a patient with dry eye...

It's this one.⁠ 😳⁠ Meet the "air puff" machine, also known as non-contact tonometry.⁠ ✴️⁠ This machine gives us your eye pressure...

I have a series of questions I ask my contact lens patients and it goes something like this...⁠ 🔹How are your contacts? ⁠ 🔹Do they ever...

♻️⁠⠀ You can and you should!⁠⠀ How do you recycle contacts?⁠⠀ 🔹 1️⃣ Start with a cardboard box. I'm holding one from the recycling...

The machine I'm using here is called a digital phoropter and we use this to determine your glasses prescription.⁠ 👓⁠ If you get a little...

⁠ There are a lot of different ways but let's go over two of them!⁠ ✅⁠ PATIENT SYMPTOMS:⁠ Some common symptoms of dry eye include:⁠...