ICL stands for “Implantable Contact Lenses” and is a vision correction surgery to help people remove the need for glasses and contact lenses. While laser eye surgery might be the most popular choice for vision correction procedures, not everyone is suitable.
February 2020 marks five years since The Dress first burst into our lives. It all started with a Tumblr post before making its way onto all social media platforms, news networks, and every staffroom conversation for the days which followed.
Cataract surgery is a procedure to remove a cataract from your eye. A cataract occurs as your eye’s natural lens becomes cloudy, filling with a build-up of protein. This build up creates a foggy visual effect, preventing light from reaching the optic nerve effectively, which is what enables you to see.
Contrary to popular belief, your dominant eye doesn’t always have better vision than your non-dominant eye. Essentially, it just means that this particular eye relays information more accurately to your brain’s visual cortex than the other eye.
Meet Maria, a registered nurse at Optimax Leicester. She is also our Infection Control Nurse for the North and, having worked at Optimax for a number of years, it’s safe to say that Maria knows eye surgery very well.
Visual snow (VS) is a rare condition which causes a static-like effect to appear over everything you see. The effect will be present in both eyes, taking up the entire visual field. For some VS sufferers, the symptoms are relatively mild...
Astigmatism is an incredibly common eye condition, affecting almost 50% of British people who wear glasses. It occurs when either the eye’s surface – the cornea – or the lens behind the cornea isn’t as round as it should be.
There are many factors that come into play when you’re deciding whether or not to opt for laser eye surgery. You probably want to investigate the reputation of the company you’re having treatment with, as well as your individual surgeon’s reputation.
Night blindness, also known as nyctalopia, is a condition which means your eyes are unable to adapt to low-light conditions. This means that simple everyday activities, such as driving in the dark or popping to the bathroom during the night, become a lot more difficult.
Have you ever looked at a still stripy pattern and felt that it was moving in front of your very eyes? Maybe you had to strain your eyes particularly hard to focus on it and differentiate one stripe from the next.
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