5 Questions You Need to Ask About the Light from Your Devices

Whether you’re a business executive, a student, or a stay-at-home mom, you rely on your devices. Smartphones, tablets, and computers keep you informed, connected, and on top of your game. But while those devices offer a boatload of benefits, there are a few questions you need to be asking about the light that’s coming from them.
1. What is Blue Light?
Blue light is a high-energy light that can contribute to digital eye strain.
2. Where Does Blue Light Come From?
Blue light is emitted by smartphones, tablets, computer monitors, LED and CFL lighting, and the sun.
3. What is Digital Eye Strain?
Digital eye strain is the discomfort you experience in your eyes after looking at a digital screen for two or more hours. 
4. How Concerned Should I be about My Child’s Screen Time?
Unfortunately, children have a couple extra risk factors working against them. First, the lens in a child’s eye is clearer than an adult’s, allowing more blue light through.  Second, the intensity of blue light increases the closer you are to the source. Children have shorter arms so they hold devices closer to their eyes. This amplifies the intensity of light they’re taking in.
5. How Can I Limit Blue Light Exposure and Combat Digital Eye Strain?
Combating blue light and digital eye strain is as simple as adding a coating to your lenses.  TechShield™ Blue is a next-generation lens enhancement that absorbs and reflects blue light. And it’s near-clear, which means it’s practically unnoticeable unless it’s reflecting blue light away from your eyes. 

Contact us today to ask about enhancing your lenses with TechShield Blue.

Correct vision is vital in the classroom. However, children often don’t know they have an eye problem, and may be struggling in school due to uncorrected vision issues. That’s the premise of Think About Your Eyes’ new virtual reality experience – participants experience vision impairments in a classroom setting, putting them in the shoes of children who struggle in school due to eye problems.

The experience simulates the following vision impairments:

Nearsightedness
Farsightedness
Diabetic retinopathy
Glaucoma
Macular degeneration

“We know that many parents don’t prioritize eye exams for their children,” said Jon Torrey, director of professional relations at Think About Your Eyes. “By using technology like virtual reality, we’re able to show parents firsthand what their children might be experiencing in the classroom, and the challenges they may be facing if vision issues aren’t detected and corrected.”

With the new school year approaching, the virtual reality experience is a way for parents to understand the challenges their children may have in the classroom because of poor vision. After all, 80 percent of learning comes through the eyes.

Think About Your Eyes’ data shows that 60 percent of parents don’t think that a comprehensive eye exam is integral to a child’s healthy checkup schedule. And 24 percent of parents wait for their children to have symptoms before taking them to an eye doctor, which can be problematic because they don’t know what “normal” vision is.

For the first time in over a decade a new treatment for dry eye has been approved.  Xiidra is a twice a day eye drop approved for both the signs and symptoms of Dry Eye.  Some patients and their doctors started to feel and see improvement in the clinical studies as early as a few weeks of therapy.


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Presbyopia is a vision problem as old as human history.  However due to the digital age and increased screen time, along with increased visual demands; the gradual loss of near vision due to the constant growth of the crystalline lens is being noticed at younger ages and bothers more people now than any other time in human history.

At Eye & Vision Care we strive to provide the best options to help our patients meet their visual demands and see their very best.

Although spectacle correction for the maturing eye have a successful thousand year track record; some patients don't want, or can't tolerate wearing glasses to solve the typical near vision problems that occur with aging.

Often glasses are the most convenient, safe, effective, and affordable way to correct for presbyopia.  However more options are available now than ever.  As time goes on newer solutions evolve and can help solve to desire to be free from reading glasses.  The newest technology is being offered by one of our affiliate surgeons and was just approved in the US by the FDA in June of 2016 after being used extensively outside of the US for several years.

Dougherty Laser Vision is excited to announce the FDA approval of the Raindrop Presbyopic Corneal Inlay. The Raindrop Near Vision Inlay is a device implanted in the cornea of the non-dominant eye to improve near vision in patients with presbyopia. It is the first device approved that changes the shape of the corneal to achieve improved near vision.

The corneal inlay surgery is an elective option for presbyopic patients including plano presbyopes who do not want to wear reading glasses. The Raindrop Near Vision Inlay is a clear device made of hydrogel material and resembles a tiny contact lens smaller than the eye of a needle. It is indicated for patients 41 to 65 years old who are unable to focus clearly on near objects or small print and need reading glasses.

To implant the device, Dr. Dougherty will create a flap in the cornea of the patient's non-dominant eye with a femto second laser, implant the device on the corneal bed over the pupil and put the flap back in place. The inlay provides a steeper surface that can help the eye focus on near objects. By reshaping the curvature of the cornea, the inlay improves near vision without significant loss of  distance vision. 

Dougherty Laser Vision was the first in California to implant the Raindrop Presbyopic Corneal Inlay in 2012 and was the leading enroller for the FDA Study on the West Coast. After two years of implantation in the national study, a high percentage of patients included in the study were able to see with 20/25 or better at near without correction with the inlay implanted eye with minimal loss of distance vision.  (Whitman, Dougherty, et. al.  Treatment of Presbyopia in Emmetropes Using a Shape-Changing Corneal Inlay. Ophthalmology. Volume 123, Issue 3, Pages 466-475, March 2016). The implant is reversible and cannot be seen in the eye.

The Raindrop Near Vision Inlay is not recommended for patients with refractive astigmatism greater than 0.75 diopters, thin cornea (under 500 microns), severe dry eye, active eye infection, keratoconus, and patients that do not tolerate the trial multifocal lens.

If you are interested to see if you are a candidate for the RaindropCorneal Inlay where patients will be able to "try it before they buy it". Patients can be fitted by Eye & Vision Care with a B&L Pure Vision High Plus Near Center Contact Lens in the non-dominant eye.

To decide if other surgical options, contact lenses, or glasses options are appropriate for your visual needs make an appointment at Eye & Vision Care today with your local optometrist.

On Jul 8, 2016 10:20 AM, "Luke Werkhoven" <lukewod@gmail.com> wrote:
Presbyopia is a vision problem as old human history.  However due to the digital age and increased screen time, along with increased visual demands; the gradual loss of near vision due to the constant growth of the crystalline lens is being noticed at younger ages and bothers more people now than any other time in human history.

At Eye & Vision Care we strive to provide the best options to help our patients meet their visual demands and see their very best.

Although spectacle correction for the maturing eye have a successful thousand year track record; some patients don't want, or can't tolerate wearing glasses to solve the typical near vision problems that occur with aging.

Often glasses are the most convenient, safe, effective, and affordable way to correct for presbyopia.  However more options are available now than ever.  As time goes on newer solutions evolve and can help solve to desire to be free from reading glasses.  The newest technology is being offered by one of our affiliate surgeons was just approved in the US by the FDA in June of 2016 after being used extensively outside of the US for several years.

Dougherty Laser Vision is excited to announce the FDA approval of the Raindrop Presbyopic Corneal Inlay. The Raindrop Near Vision Inlay is a device implanted in the cornea of the non-dominant eye to improve near vision in patients with presbyopia. It is the first device approved that changes the shape of the corneal to achieve improved near vision.

The corneal inlay surgery is an elective option for presbyopic patients including plano presbyopes who do not want to wear reading glasses. The Raindrop Near Vision Inlay is a clear device made of hydrogel material and resembles a tiny contact lens smaller than the eye of a needle. It is indicated for patients 41 to 65 years old who are unable to focus clearly on near objects or small print and need reading glasses.

To implant the device, Dr. Dougherty will create a flap in the cornea of the patient's non-dominant eye with a femto second laser, implant the device on the corneal bed over the pupil and put the flap back in place. The inlay provides a steeper surface that can help the eye focus on near objects. By reshaping the curvature of the cornea, the inlay improves near vision without significant loss of  distance vision. 

Dougherty Laser Vision was the first in California to implant the Raindrop Presbyopic Corneal Inlay in 2012 and was the leading enroller for the FDA Study on the West Coast. After two years of implantation in the national study, a high percentage of patients included in the study were able to see with 20/25 or better at near without correction with the inlay implanted eye with minimal loss of distance vision.  (Whitman, Dougherty, et. al.  Treatment of Presbyopia in Emmetropes Using a Shape-Changing Corneal Inlay. Ophthalmology. Volume 123, Issue 3, Pages 466-475, March 2016). The implant is reversible and cannot be seen in the eye.

The Raindrop Near Vision Inlay is not recommended for patients with refractive astigmatism greater than 0.75 diopters, thin cornea (under 500 microns), severe dry eye, active eye infection, keratoconus, and patients that do not tolerate the trial multifocal lens.

If you are interested to see if you are a candidate for the RaindropCorneal Inlay where patients will be able to "try it before they buy it". Patients can be fitted by Eye & Vision Care with a B&L Pure Vision High Plus Near Center Contact Lens in the non-dominant eye.

To decide if other surgical options, contact lenses, or glasses options are appropriate for your visual needs make an appointment at Eye & Vision Care today with your local optometrist.

A new Massey University study is underway to investigate the impact of poor vision on the education potential of low decile primary school students. The research was initiated after a charity screening programme of 750 students from lower socio economic areas, which found one in three had an undiagnosed eye condition.