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Sports Eye Injury Prevention

Preventable blindness occurs all too often from sports injuries. Most sports related eye injuries in children can be prevented with the appropriate form of protective eyewear. Regular eye glasses are inadequate, safety frames and lenses such as rec specs with side shields, goggles, eye guards and other forms of protection are required. Polycarbonate lenses are [...]

Bugs Eye Optometrist View on Things

Picture of the week. This is an unidentified insect eye magnified over 800x by an electron microscope. It is an example of a compound eye, a primitive form where each sphere is a unit that is a cluster of photoreceptor light sensing cells. Imagine a small image for each sphere and you have the mosaic [...]