How to Treat Eye Injuries
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Here at Georgia Eye Physicians and Surgeons, we work hard to keep our patients educated about all the potentially damaging things that can affect their eyesight, and many people don’t realize that the spring and summer months can be particularly dangerous. The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) reports that the occurrence of eye injuries increases…
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Ask the Eye Docs: Why Can’t You Look Directly at an Eclipse?
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For more than a decade, the dedicated specialists at Georgia Eye Physicians and Surgeons have provided patients from all across Georgia with an array of eye care services, ranging from routine vision exams for prescription eyewear and comprehensive medical eye exams to advanced eye disease treatment and even refractive laser eye surgery. In the latest…
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Am I a Candidate for LASIK Vision Correction?
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Virtually everyone out there has heard of LASIK, the laser vision correction procedure that can correct common vision refractive errors, like nearsightedness (myopia), farsightedness (hyperopia), and astigmatism. This is hardly surprising, since more than 700,000 LASIK procedures are performed each year in the United States alone, and more than 40 million procedures have been performed…
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The Dangers of Dry Eyes and How to Treat Them
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Although you may not realize it, your eyes are constantly moving. Not only do they shift to scan your environment, but tiny muscles are also continually adjusting both the size of the pupil, to admit more or less light into the eye’s interior, and the shape of the lens, to adjust focus between nearby and…
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Ask the Eye Docs: Questions about Glaucoma
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For more than a decade, the dedicated team of specialists at Georgia Eye Physicians and Surgeons, P.C. has provided patients from all across Georgia with an array of eye care services, ranging from routine vision examinations and prescription eyewear to advanced eye disease treatment and refractive eye surgery. In this ongoing blog feature, you will…
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4 Important Questions To Ask If Considering Lasik Eye Surgery
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There are many different issues that can affect your eyesight, but among the most common are simple refractive errors, like nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. These conditions, which result when minor irregularities in the shape of the eye cause blurriness or distortion in vision, affect millions of men and women and are usually treated with eyeglasses…
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What Happens during Cataract Surgery
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There are many different causes of vision loss, but few are as pervasive as cataracts. According to the United States Center for Disease Control (CDC), there are more than 20 million Americans over the age of 40 who are affected by this condition, and it is estimated that more than half of all Americans will…
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Ask the Eye Docs: Can Reading at Night Hurt My Eyesight?
Posted by: Georgia Eye Physicians and Surgeons in Latest News
For more than a decade, the dedicated specialists at Georgia Eye Physicians and Surgeons, P.C. have provided patients from all across Georgia with a wide array of eye care services, ranging from routine and comprehensive medical eye examinations to advanced eye disease treatment, laser cataract surgery, and LASIK vision correction surgery. In the latest installment…
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The Many Causes of Eye Infections
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Whether it’s a minor cut that becomes red and inflamed or a persistent stomach flu that keeps you home in bed, we have all dealt, at one point or another, with infection, and unfortunately many of the viruses, bacteria, and fungi that can invade the human body are also capable of attacking the surface or…
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How Often Do I Need a Comprehensive Medical Eye Exam?
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Maintaining healthy eyesight is not always easy, in part because so many different factors, ranging from heredity to lifestyle to even diet can all play important roles. This is the primary reason why Dr. William Segal and Dr. Marc Lay at Georgia Eye Physicians and Surgeons always recommend that our patients undergo comprehensive medical eye…
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