Understanding the Different Treatments for Vision Loss
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There are many different issues that can affect your eyesight, ranging from simple refractive errors like nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism, to external injuries and infections, to degenerative or neurological conditions that could potentially cause permanent blindness. However, three of the most common causes of visual impairment worldwide are cataracts, glaucoma, and retinopathy. While these three…
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What You Should Know about Involuntary Eyelid Spasms
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For more than a decade, Dr. William Segal, Dr. Marc lay, and the other eye care specialists at Georgia Eye Physicians and Surgeons have been providing eye care to men, women, and children from all over Georgia. In that time we have helped thousands of patients and have seen virtually every kind of eye condition,…
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What is a Torn or Detached Retina?
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The eyes are delicate and sensitive organs, and there are many different ways in which they can be damaged. One of the most serious of these is by a detached or torn retina, but even though it is not uncommon to have heard of this condition, many people don’t understand exactly what it means. It…
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Ask the Eye Docs: What is Low Vision?
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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 LASIK vision correction surgery. In the latest…
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More Fascinating Facts about Your Eyes
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Composed of more than two million separate working parts, the eyes are some of the most intricately structured organs in the body, and are second only to the brain in overall complexity. However, because most of us are able to rely on the use of our eyes every day, it can be easy to take…
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Protective Eyewear for Summer Sports
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With the weather getting warmer and the trees beginning to bloom, many people are looking forward to one thing: spring sports. Over the next few months, recreational activities like baseball, tennis, and golf will be going on in hundreds of backyards and public fields and thousands of men, women, and children will no doubt be…
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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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