Optometrist
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What is your Tear Number?
Our office is now officially an accredited TearLab Dry Eye Center! Tearlab is a new, dry eye testing instrument that measures the osmolarity or “saltiness” of your basic tear film on the surface of the eye. The more concentrated or salty the tears are from evaporation or lack of tear production, the drier the […]
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We are one of only two Tearlab accredited Dry Eye Centers in the Texas Panhandle!
Accredited TearLab Dry Eye Center
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Spa Treatment for the eyes
Do some days your eyes just burn and feel sore from dryness? Take them to the spa! Or bring the spa to them with this eye treatment. Tranquileyes goggles are like a spa treatment for the eyes as they deliver moist heat to the eyelids and oil glands that nourish and coat the eye’s […]
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Maybe It’s Not Your Contact Lens!
At times contact lenses can be uncomfortable, especially in the climate of the Texas Panhandle. Low humidity, wind, and lots of allergens do not make for an environment conducive to all day, comfortable contact lens wear. A torn lens, a piece of lint or dust or lens coatings from using the same lens more than […]
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My Arms Are Getting Shorter!
That dreaded word – bifocals! Seems like the worst news that I can tell somebody. That you need help to focus your eyes up close now. I guess it’s one of the first signs of our mortality and we are not getting any younger. Men seem to deny it longer since they must think it’s […]
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Home Eye Safety – Fall
Fall brings cooler weather, fireplaces needing firewood and yard work before the cold winter hits. Anytime you work with power tools such as chainsaws, trimmers, mowers in the yard you should wear protective eyewear. Every year, I see people with sawdust or other foreign material in the eye because they didn’t put on any safety […]
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School kids eyes and vision
It happened again today. So many times I have seen elementary school age children that are struggling in school, perhaps labeled dyslexic or ADHD, and the only problem is they are far-sighted (hyperopic) and need glasses to help focus. Sometimes they have been checked by the school nurse and passed the screenings they perform or […]
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Wow! lenses
For the first time, optical lenses can be worn with absolutely no distortion. In the past, lenses either had to be held in place in frames by tightening the frame around it or by drilling holes and placing screws through them. This always causes some kind of stress and visual distortions in the lenses not […]
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Allergy eyes in the Texas Panhandle
During harvest time, there are usually plenty of dry, dusty conditions in the Texas Panhandle. With the combines going and the wind picking up the dust and pollen, we see an increase in the amount of swollen, itchy, red eyes. Many people have allergies to corn, milo or cotton pollen that get stirred up […]