How to Make Eyes White Making your eyes whiter seem to be a universal concern. All patients want their eyes to look sparkling white all the time. A question I get daily is, “How do I make My Eyes Whiter?” All eyeMDs know that anything with Phenylephrine will blanch the conjunctiva (the clear saran wrap […]
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The Best Way to Treat Hemorrhoids Even though I am an eye surgeon, patients and friends ask me about all kinds of medical issues. This is for a dear patient who has been suffering from hemorrhoids for months now and can no longer sleep the pain is so bad. Hemorrhoids are part of life for
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What does a Normal Meibomian Gland Look Like? Compare My Meibomian Glands to Normal Meibomian Glands with LipiView’s MeiboGrade For the first time in history, we can now show patients what their Meibomian Glands look like. Why is this important? If you are one of the millions of people out there that feel their eyes
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Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD): What You Need To Know About Having A Bone Marrow Transplant If you have ever had a Bone Marrow Transplant or Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant (any transfer of stem cells from a healthy person (the donor) to your body after high-intensity chemotherapy or radiation), you will always need to be followed yearly to be
Best Technique to Repair Scleral Melt or Scleral Necrosis These are the best videos showing how to repair a scleral melt. I hope to put up my videos on YouTube as well. 1. This is an older technique that shows the classic, “score the rectangular area & remove necrotic & healthy sclera” all surgeons learned
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Platelet-Rich Plasma Injections For Face: The Good, The Bad, The Beautiful, & The Ugly A friend asked me to comment on the dangers and positive potentials of Platelet-Rich Plasma injections for the Face. Though I am not a dermatologist, I have been looking into using PRP for my severe dry eye patients. There are some things
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Hypnopompic Hallucinations A dear patient of mine who I have known for years, came in yesterday stating, “I have been seeing things.” When I asked what do you mean, she proceeded to tell me about all the things she has been seeing right after “waking up”in the morning. She is a lovely woman and very
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Most Important Things to Know Before You Go Skiing. Skiing is a relatively safe sport, in terms of one’s chance of dying: 1 in 1.4 million: http://www.tetongravity.com/story/adventure/your-chances-of-dying-ranked-by-sport-and-activity However, injuries are not uncommon. Here are the estimated injury statistics for 2009 from the Consumer Product Safety Commission: Basketball. More than 170,000 children ages 5 to 14 were treated in
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Best Ski Protection for Your Eyes A dear patient of mine is a professional skier and instructor. She is right now skiing the Alps till end of January. She also has some of the worse dry eyes I have ever seen. She is only 39 years old. She does have early ocular rosacea and I
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