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November 19, 2009
The cornea is an important structure in the front of the eye. The majority of the focusing power of the eye resides in this tissue. Despite proper focusing, vision is impaired if retinal disease is present.
February 10, 2010
Decreased vision can be from advancing retinal disease. It can also be from dry eye. Patients with retinal disease can have dry eye, too, but it may be hard for your doctor to distinguish one from the other.
May 17, 2010
An eye patch is used after most eye surgery. It gives us some comfort, but really has no healing powers.