Eyesight Getting Worse? How Vision Changes as We Age
Posted by: Kentucky Eye Institute in Vision Care
Right now, your vision is the best it’ll ever be. Unless you make some sort of surgical change, your eyes are going to get worse with time, not better. The good news is, your eyesight getting worse is normal, and the bad news is, you can’t necessarily stop it. Learn what changes you can expect…
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How to Find the Right Eye Doctor in Lexington, KY
Posted by: Kentucky Eye Institute in General Eye Health
Over 60% of people need some kind of vision correction and that number is continuously growing. Now more than ever, it is important to visit your eye doctor regularly in order to ensure you are seeing things properly. But eye doctors can do a lot more than just vision correction. They can deal with a wide…
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Glasses Vs. Contacts: Which Are Right For You?
Posted by: Kentucky Eye Institute in Vision Care
61% of the American population relies on corrective lenses to see. That’s up 4% from over a decade ago. The growing population of glasses and contact wearers is not only made up of the elderly, either. 20 percent of millennials use corrective lenses, too. If you ever see the eye doctor and discover you need…
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Dr. Rebecca Harris on Her Career as a Kentucky Eye Doctor
Posted by: Kentucky Eye Institute in Staff Spotlight
Dr. Rebecca Harris grew up in Somerset, Kentucky, where her father is still practicing optometry to this day. She received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology at the University of Kentucky in 2005 and was then accepted into the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry. Her clinical training included primary care, pediatrics,…
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No Need for Glasses: The Best Contact Lenses for Astigmatism
Posted by: Kentucky Eye Institute in Specialty Care
If you’ve been diagnosed with astigmatism in one or both eyes, you are part of around 33% of the American population. In previous decades, people with eyesight problems were forced to wear glasses. Now, there are many other options for people who don’t want to wear glasses. The technologies behind contact lenses and laser eye surgery are…
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Diagnosed With Macular Degeneration? What Happens Next
Posted by: Kentucky Eye Institute in Vision Care
There are certain things we all expect to happen as we get older: more aches and pains, hearing loss, and poor vision. In some cases, though, that vision loss is more severe due to more specific conditions. Macular degeneration, in particular, is the leading cause of blindness in Americans over age 60. If you’ve been diagnosed…
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Eye Care: 8 Important Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Skip Annual Eye Exams
Posted by: Kentucky Eye Institute in General Eye Health
An estimated 2.2 million Americans will be blind, and an additional 5 million will have low vision by 2030. This is startling, to say the least. Annual eye exams are pivotal in identifying and treating eye problems at their early stages. This gives you better chances of recovering and not being part of these statistics….
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Near or Far: What Does 20 40 Vision Mean?
Posted by: Kentucky Eye Institute in Vision Care
They say hindsight is 20/20, but what is 20/40? If you’re amongst the two out of three Americans who use vision correction in some way, you may be familiar with these kinds of ratios. Or, you may be completely unfamiliar, especially if you’ve never looked at the prescription your doctor has given you. In this…
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Seeing Spots: The Diagnosis and Treatment of Eye Floaters
Posted by: Kentucky Eye Institute in General Eye Health
Have you ever found yourself seeing fireworks, but it isn’t the Fourth of July? Seeing spots is an incredibly common phenomenon, and often is nothing to worry about. But other times, they warrant a trip to the eye doctor and further investigation. In this article, we’ll go over some of the common causes of floaters…
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See Clearly Now! 7 Stunning Benefits of Undergoing Lasik Eye Surgery
Posted by: Kentucky Eye Institute in General Eye Health
Three out of every four American adults use vision correcting devices. That’s almost 190 million people. Even more people worldwide need glasses but don’t have access to them. Eyeglasses as we know them were invented in 1730. Every hundred years or so since then, vision correcting technology has made huge advancements. Contacts were first manufactured…
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