Meet Our August Spotlight Patient: Jobeth
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Jobeth, a retired teacher from Barnsville, Georgia, had spent most of her life without experiencing any vision problems at all. As years passed, she started experiencing some trouble with fine print and began using reading glasses from the local drugstore. Then, very suddenly, she found herself struggling to read fine print on television and the…
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Clear Information about Cataracts
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Cataracts are the most common cause of blindness in adults over the age of 40 worldwide. It is estimated that more than half of all Americans over the age of 80 either have a cataract or have undergone cataract surgery. Although there are several ways to treat the symptoms of a cataract in the early…
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The Many Varieties of Contact Lenses
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More than 34 million people in the U.S. and 71 million people in the world wear contact lenses. Still, even many who wear contact lenses on a daily basis may not fully understand the many options available: disposable, gas permeable, toric, multifocal, and bandage contacts. At our state of the art optical center, we at Georgia Eye Physicians and…
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Meet Our July Spotlight Patient – Willa
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Ever since she was a teenager in North Carolina, Willa struggled with poor vision. On trips to the beach, she wondered why so many people were wearing sunglasses. Sure, she thought they looked cool, but when she wore them she could hardly see a thing. By the age of thirty, Willa had stopped driving at…
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Treating Chronic Dry Eye
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The eye is an extremely complex and precise instrument and, like any piece of precision machinery, it needs to be constantly lubricated in order for it to operate smoothly. For the eye, lubrication comes in the form of tears. Made by the lacrimal gland, tears are necessary for the overall health of the eye and…
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LASIK Surgery Makes the “Perfect” Gift
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As summer approaches and the end of the school year draws near, proud parents all over the country may be seeking the perfect graduation gift to express the pride they feel. In recent years, the trend has expanded from watches or stationary sets towards something that really symbolizes “looking ahead” to the next chapter in…
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Meet Our June Spotlight Patient: James
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James had worn glasses for the majority of his life. “Ever since I was eight,” he joked, “people used to say my nose needed to be as big as it was to hold up those coke bottles I had to wear.” But when he learned that he would need an intraocular lens transplant at the…
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Presbyopia Explained
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Whether it’s increased difficulty when levering yourself from your favorite armchair or that moment when you realize you’re holding a book at arm’s length in order to bring the print into focus , our bodies have little ways of letting us know that we are getting older. The latter sign of aging is the onset…
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What is Age-Related Macular Degeneration?
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Age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, is a common disease that affects central vision and is the leading cause of severe vision loss among people over the age of sixty. Researchers estimate that one in 2000 people in the developed world are afflicted with macular degeneration and as people come to live longer lives that number…
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Meet Our May Spotlight Patient: Louis
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At first, 68 year old Louis didn’t even notice anything was wrong. His wife had noticed he was squinting more than he used to, and he complained about it being too dim around the house, but it was nothing that seemed cause for much concern. But as his vision grew increasingly blurry, and the halos…
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