Month: August 2018

How Contact Lenses May End Up In Our Food: STOP FLUSHING Your Contact Lenses!

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As Contact Lens Health week continues here at the Center for Excellence in Eye Care, we wanted to share some very interesting contact lens 411 with our patients! Question 1: Q: How many people in America do you think wake up every day and put contact lenses in their eyes? A: 45 Million people Take…

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Lost Contact Lens Stories from OUR office!

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Continuing to pay tribute to Contact Lens Health, here are some REAL stories from our office: Good at Numbers (by Frank Spektor, MD) 33 years ago, a patient with very deep-set eyes showed up to our office and complained to me about some mucus discharge coming from his eyes.  This patient was a contact lens…

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Ever fall asleep in your contact lenses and wonder where they went in the AM?

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It’s Contact Lens Health Week and we at The Center for Excellence in Eye Care promised to share this next crazy contact lens story with you last week.  If you read our last contact lens blog, we went from a lens being lost for 28 years to 27 contact lenses here. We constantly get the…

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Dr. Carlos Buznego Transforming Treatment of Glaucoma with iStent

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On June 25th, 2018, Glaukos Corporation announced it received premarket approval (PMA) from the FDA for the iStent inject® Trabecular Micro-Bypass System.  The iStent inject® is indicated for the reduction of intraocular pressure (IOP) in adult mild-to-moderate primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) patients who are also undergoing cataract surgery. In order to achieve their goal of transforming the…

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Mysteriously lost a contact lens? The truth behind what could have happened.

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A recent article published in Australia really made us think we needed to share some information with our patients and our followers about contact lens safety.  We get calls and questions about patients who believe contact lenses may be stuck in “backs of their eyes”.  None of these stories are meant to frighten you, they…

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Do you give your child an iPad? Could this affect their health? Dr. Richard Simon interviewed by PBS on Baptist Health Channel

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Dr. Richard Simon was interviewed just a few weeks ago by PBS on the Baptist Health Channel. His interview covers so many incredible topics that we are asked by our patients everyday.  It begins with what technology has caused us…”Computer Vision Syndrome” or “CVS” which is something the majority of our patients have suffered symptoms…

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Center For Excellence Dinner Lecture Event

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Tuesday, July 31st, our doctors hosted a wonderful educational dinner lecture event at Fleming’s in Coral Gables.  We were joined by 26 other eye doctors in our South Florida Community, and in total we were 4o. Dr. Cristobal Cruz Colon gave a lecture on the Latest treatments in Glaucoma and he shared all of the…

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