Before we jump into the scary stats, let us start off with the hope, a comprehensive eye exam is one way to help catch diabetes and our clinic is the best place to get your Toronto eye exam. It is estimated that more than 5.7 million Canadians have pre-diabetes. Nearly 50% of those with pre-diabetes […]
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August 28, 2017
August 25, 2017
LASIK Laser Eye Surgery Toronto Guide: Should You Get It
If you’re tired of wearing glasses or contact lenses and are a resident or work in Toronto, laser eye surgery may have crossed your mind. Laser eye surgery, also known as refractive eye surgery, is a surgical procedure used to treat common vision problems, such as nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. It helps to improve vision […]
August 3, 2017
Corneal research provides a ray of hope
The cornea is the outermost layer of the eye: the clear dome that covers the front of the eye and works to focus your vision. It is the part that is reshaped during laser eye surgery and the part that feels itchy or irritated when your eyes are too dry. But for people who have […]
July 30, 2017
Should you take supplements for eye health?
For every condition, there is a vitamin or a nutraceutical – or so it would seem on a visit to your local health food store! Since most of the capsules, pills and tinctures promise to improve health in some specific way, should you be taking one (or more) supplements each day to maintain and improve […]
July 29, 2017
Is a Black Eye After Eye Care Surgery Cause for Worry?
Does having a black eye give reason to book an eye exam with your Toronto eye clinic? Maybe. Will it the injury request vision-correcting laser eye surgery? Depends. Perhaps you’ve been lucky enough to never have had a shiner – a swollen bruise that occurs when fluids collect around the eye after an injury such […]
July 26, 2017
What are eye floaters…and why doesn’t everybody get them?
If you often get floaters, perhaps you’ve heard the advice to ‘just live with it, everybody gets them’. To some degree, that’s true: we’ve all seen eye floaters at one point or another – spots, lines, threads, or dots of various shapes and sizes floating in the eye – if only during eye exams, when […]
July 22, 2017
Glaucoma: Is Cannabis an Effective Solution?
As Toronto optometrists, we feel it’s our duty to report on cannabis’ effectively as a glaucoma treatment. With medical marijuana already legal in Canada and with recreational legalization imminently on the horizon, some Canadians are questioning whether cannabis, with its long association as a treatment for various medical conditions, can help their glaucoma, too. It’s […]
July 15, 2017
Help – I think I need bifocals!
Is it time to visit your Toronto eye clinic for an eye exam? If you’re thinking that you may need bifocals, then read on and find out. We’ve all seen people holding a brochure or restaurant menu out at arm’s length in order to read the fine print. But if you thought they were people […]
July 5, 2017
What’s Causing the Red Eye?
As one of the best Toronto optometrists, we’ve seen our fair share of red eyes and we think you’ll probably agree when we say: No one likes to have red eyes. Whether caused by fatigue from an overnight flight, allergies, or captured in a photo due to a camera’s improper exposure, if we have red […]
May 30, 2017
How to Care for your Eyeglasses
The high cost of quality prescription eyeglasses can really add up, especially if you are without vision care insurance coverage. At our state of the art optical dispensary in the Yorkville neighbourhood of Toronto, we carry premium eyewear and high quality ophthalmic lenses that will optimize your visual performance while looking great and feeling comfortable. […]