Innovations in Dry Eyes: The Truth in the Trenches Patients with severe dry eye can often feel miserable. Imagine feeling a painful sandy sensation grate over the front of your eye every time you blinked. Any innovation that helps is priceless to these patients and their doctors who yearn for better treatments for this frustrated […]
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FOOD: How to choose best food to heal your symptoms? Years ago, it seemed as if no one ever talked about “going Gluten Free,” or “a low inflammatory diet,” or “going Carb Free.” What is all this craze about? Mostly, the issue is that traditional medicine does not have all the answers and more research
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Best Foods to Eat if You Have Diabetes Type II I still meet patients who are surprised to hear the following fact: Making one key modification to one’s diet can mean the difference between losing vision from diabetes (and sometimes dying a slow, sometimes painful death from the complications of diabetes) versus never having to truly
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Our article for the JCRS was limited to 700 words, so here are the rest of our references. Sandra Lora Cremers, MD, FACS References: Nandigam K, Soh J, Gensheimer WG, Ghazi A, Khalifa YM. Cost analysis of objective resident cataract surgery assessments. J Cataract Refract Surg. 2015 May;41(5):997-1003. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2014.08.041. S.L. Cremers, J.B. Ciolino, Z.K.
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How is a Cataract Removed from the Eye? Years ago, surgeons had to open the eye at the limbus (where the cornea meets the white part of the eye called the sclera) to about 8-10mm to physically go in with a spoon or loop- like apparatus and forcefully remove the cataract. Understandably, that led to
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Rarely do I prescribe FML, and I have not prescribed blephamide in the last 10 years. But just in case, patients should know about this recall. Sandra Lora Cremers, MD, FACS Allergan Recalls Contaminated Eye Ointments Robert Lowes Disclosures | August 25, 2015 Comment Print EDITORS’ RECOMMENDATIONS Endophthalmitis Risk No Greater With Avastin Than Lucentis Pharmacists Warn of Ophthalmic Drug
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Testosterone Eye Drops Testosterone eye drops 0.03% were shown to be effective for treating meibomian gland dysfunction, evaporative dry eye, and relieving symptoms of blepharitis as measured by the Ora Calibra scales in a 2012 Phase 2 clinical trial conducted by Allergan. It is very difficult to find Testosterone eye drops 0.03%. We obtain Testosterone
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The Most Common Risks, Issues, and Complications after LASIK No surgery is risk-free. The vast majority of Laser Refractive Surgeries, such as LASIK and PRK, cause no significant side effects or long term problems. The majority of patients, especially patients who have difficulty wearing glasses or are contact lens intolerant (or because of their profession,
More Options for Dry Eye Treatment: LACRISERT Some patients have really been helped with Lacrisert. Depending on a patient’s medical history, about 50% feel improvement in their dry eye symptoms after using Lacrisert. However, 50% do not feel an improvement. The most common reason for not feeling an improvement is not giving the Lacrisert enough
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