How Can Diabetes Impact Your Eyes?
Did you know diabetes can affect more than just your blood sugar levels? Uncontrolled diabetes can lead to diabetic eye disease, risking vision impairment and even blindness. Knowing how diabetes affects your eyes, spotting the signs of diabetic eye disease, and discovering how to shield your vision are vital for eye health. Why act fast […]
Premium Iols
Premium IOLs for Refractive Lens Exchange For patients who don’t qualify for laser eye surgery, intraocular surgery can be a very safe and effective alternative for vision correction. Intraocular surgery corrects vision by inserting a lens implant into the eye, almost like permanent contact lenses. Intraocular surgery can either be phakic, meaning the lens implant […]
7 Causes of Low Vision: Are You at Risk?
Of all five senses, vision is most important for helping humans perceive and interpret our surroundings. Other animals are more reliant on their sense of smell. For us, eyes are the main sense organ, and much of our brain activity is a dedicated to visual input. When eyesight is compromised, the result can be devastating. […]
7 Reasons Why You Need an Eye Exam
You’ve been blowing it off for months…years…okay, centuries! The longer you wait, the worse many conditions can get. The worst thing you can do is wait until you have issues and then visit the doctor since there are many preventive treatments to help. You have been wearing the same contacts for years. And that’s not […]
Common Eye Care Medical Terms
During your regular appointments with your optometrist at Clarity Laser Vision, you may hear a variety of eye care medical terms you are not familiar with. We want to provide you with definitions of common terms you may hear during your next appointment to better understand what your eye doctor is telling you. Read on […]
Mistakes You May Be Making with Your Eyes
Sight is one of the most vital of the senses and one of the most overlooked. Just because we see clearly with our eyes from the moment we awake till we sleep, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t care properly for them. Seeing how important the eyes are, we can do better. Keep your eyes safe by […]
Things to Keep in Mind When Deciding to get Intraocular Lenses or Not
For those of us that have to use contact lenses or glasses every day just to see, it’s important to know our options if we don’t feel like sticking little pieces of plastic in our eyes every day. While refractive surgery, such as LASIK is most common amongst patients that want a permanent fix to […]
Is LASIK Eye Surgery Risky for Athletes?
The chance to fully utilize your eyes without contacts or glasses is tempting for anyone with less-than-perfect vision. For an athlete, it might become especially tempting. If you can see better, perhaps you can even play better. The question, though, is whether or not it’s completely safe for athletes. You might wonder if, after the […]
Protect Those Eyes When Playing Sports!
Vision is very important to all athletes as it is equivalent to encouragement, technique, practice, or natural ability. Problems are, however, encountered in this aspect as a result of sports-related eye injuries. This is a significant world hazard that occurs in a large number of athletes. In about 15% of cases, it results in permanent […]
What to Expect During an Eye Exam
If you’ve never had an eye exam before, or it has just been a while, there’s no need to worry. Eye exams are simple, quick, and they can bring you benefits that can improve your daily life. Eye exams should be part of a routine. Unfortunately, there are many people across Calgary who wait until […]