What You Should Know About Proper Eye Care and Your Health During COVID-19 Since the Coronavirus has interrupted most of our everyday lives, creating healthier habits has never been more important. In response, our expert eye care team has created an easy guide to help you properly care for your ...
How to Prevent Your Glasses from Fogging Up while Wearing a Protective Face Mask There are over 143 million people in the world who wear corrective eyeglasses. If you are one of them, then you probably are asking yourself: how do I keep my eyeglasses from fogging up when wearing my ...
Find Relief from these Four Common Eye Issues at Home Our ophthalmologists at NeoVision Eye Center have extensive medical and ocular surgical expertise to ensure optimal eye health for all our Union City patients. But there are a few very common eye problems that can be easily treated safely at ...
Relieve Symptoms of Dry Eye while Spending Extended Time at Home The last thing anyone needs right now is to feel physically uncomfortable, but around 5 million people in the U.S. struggle with irritating dry eye symptoms every day. Whether it is caused by allergies, an underlying eye condition, or ...
Noticing Floaters Or Flashes in Your Vision? Here's What You Need to Know! Floaters and flashes in the eye are completely normal to experience as we age and are typically not dangerous. But on rare occasions, these can be warning signs of something more severe. What are Eye Floaters? Eye ...
What Patients Can Expect After Having Cataract Surgery There are currently more people around the world suffering from cataracts than any other eye diseases combined. In fact, over 20 million people have been left blind from this condition, making cataracts the world’s number one cause of blindness. Thankfully, with modern ...
Everything You Need To Know About LASIK Laser Eye Surgery Over 10 million people in the USA have already experienced the life-changing effects of LASIK laser vision correction. If you are considering correcting your vision problems with laser eye surgery or are preparing for your upcoming procedure, this LASIK Laser Eye ...
The Ultimate Guide to Keep Your Eyes Healthy This Year Every year there are nearly one million eye infections that require a trip to the hospital in the United States. To avoid being apart of this scary statistic - or dealing with emergency medical bills - supporting your eye health ...
What Patients Can Expect After Having LASIK Eye Surgery LASIK eye surgery is one of the world’s safest and most popular laser vision correction procedures. If you are a candidate for LASIK and are wondering what to expect after your surgery, you are not alone. This is a top ...
The Most Common Questions Our Patients Ask About LASIK Are you looking to correct your vision problems with LASIK surgery? Our number one priority at NeoVision Eye Center is our patients’ comfort. We understand that while LASIK candidates are excited about their approaching procedure, there are a number of anxieties ...
What You Need to Know About LASIK Eye Surgery Are you considering LASIK Laser Eye Surgery to correct your vision? If you are looking for an alternative to eyeglasses or contact lenses, LASIK might be perfect for you. At NeoVision Eye Center we are committed to providing our patients ...
Schedule Annual Vision Exams to Maintain Eye Health There are more than a few reasons regular comprehensive eye exams are important for both children and adults. In order to make sure a child’s vision is developing normally, it is essential that parents schedule regular eye check ups. If left ...
Having healthy eyes is an easy thing to take for granted. A lot of us might find ourselves saying, “If it isn’t broke, why fix it?” But the truth of the matter is, once vision problems begin, they can really interfere with our lives. Too often we wait too ...
What is considered a festive time of year, filled with Holidays and celebrating the new colors of leaves, can also become a difficult time for your eye health. Fall is a common time for the traditional cold and dryness symptoms to start occurring. Bacteria and germs spread as temperature drops, ...
Just like you would apply sunscreen to your skin during a day at the beach, so too should you be wearing sunglasses for vision protection during prolonged outdoor activities. Overexposure to the sun’s ultraviolet light can cause damage to the sensitive cells found within the eyes. While it is ...
It has long been said that our eyes are our windows to the world. But as time goes by, these windows [our eyes] will begin to lose their clarity. While it is true that much of vision loss is simply part of the aging process, it does not mean we ...
Digital eye strain is more common than we may think. More and more we're spending long periods of time focused on our digital devices. Whether for work or play, most of us are using screens every single day and up to 90% of adults spend two hours or more staring into ...
When we hear the word “migraine”, we often think of a painful and debilitating headache that is far worse than everyday headaches. The term “ocular migraine” can cause a little confusion but generally means a migraine that is accompanied by changes or distortions to vision. The term is often used ...
From time to time, patients whose cataracts have been corrected through surgerical treatment experience a decline in their eyesight weeks or even months after their vision correction surgery. In these rare cases, patients understandably come to the conclusion that their cataract has returned. Which prompts the question, “Can you get ...
Laser Eye Surgery The Second Time Around A common question patients ask about laser eye surgery is “is the treatment permanent?” and the answer is, a little blurry. Just like your prescription for eyeglasses has changed slowly over time, so too, will your vision after laser eye surgery. The laser ...
Risks Associated with Contacts Keratitis For contact lens wearers, it's common innocuous bad habits that put most at risk of infection- things like sleeping in your contacts and wearing your contacts for too long. The most common infection that can come as a result of wearing contacts for too long ...
Eye infections are extremely common conditions typically caused by bacteria, viruses, allergies, or fungi. They can affect people of all ages and walks of life, and are typically uncomfortable but non-threatening issues. Three of the most common eye infections are conjunctivities (pink eye), blepharitis, and styes. Conjunctivitis (Pink Eye) What ...
Floaters and Flashers in Vision Eye floaters and flashers are common symptoms that are usually but not always harmless. Both floaters and flashes commonly occur as we grow older. Let us address your floaters and flashes questions! Schedule a comprehensive eye exam with Dr. Tandon of NeoVision in Union City ...
During pterygium removal surgery, the good eye is covered, while the problematic eye is given a numbing and sterilizing drop, an anesthetic gel and then an injection to completely numb it. As the surgeon starts to work on getting the graft, more drops or gel can be added if the ...
Determining whether or not you need glasses and figuring out the proper prescription for optimal vision requires a succession of tests using an assortment of refractive techniques. At NeoVision Eye Center, we use the most advanced techniques and equipment for your vision exam, such as an auto-refractor and other doctor-controlled ...
If your vision has been distorted by a phantom light or object that dances around, you are likely experiencing something known as a floater. Floaters are relatively opaque objects that you may occasionally see floating in your field of vision. They become more visible when looking at a flat, light ...
Dr. Shobha Tandon receives several patients who come in complaining about issues related to dry eyes. This is one of the more common issues related to the eyes and often can be corrected with a few modifications in environment or practices. Dry eyes typically get worse as we age and ...
A pterygium lesion is an elevated superficial mass that generally forms over the white part of the eye and can extend on the corneal surface. This growth is benign and is often shaped like a wedge. Most cases of this growth don’t cause any issues and often require no ...
Anyone experiencing diabetic retinopathy is dealing with a serious threat to their vision because of the damage it can do to the retina. Currently, there are more than five million people in the United States over the age of 40 who suffer from this disease. Though prevention of diabetic retinopathy is ...
A chalazion is a small bump, similar to a stye, that appears on your eyelid because of a blocked oil gland. It can develop on the lower or upper eyelid where the Meibomian glands produce oil. Though it can disappear on its own in about one month, treatment can be ...
