14 Mar How to Prepare for Your Eye Surgery
These are my recommendations to get ready for your eye surgery. Whatever you do...
These are my recommendations to get ready for your eye surgery. Whatever you do...
Your eye exam following your retinal surgery can be very brief. Believe it or not, very, very few things need to be checked!...
I produced my first patient education video! It is video of me performing a vitrectomy to remove an epiretinal membrane. Enjoy!...
Most eye surgery is performed while you are awake, yet comfortable. Occasionally a sedative is needed, but general anesthesia is often not needed....
An eye patch is used after most eye surgery. It gives us some comfort, but really has no healing powers. ...
Following almost any eye surgery, your doctor will prescribe a series of eye drops. These usually include an antibiotic and others to keep the eye comfortable....
Retina surgery, either scleral buckle or vitrectomy, is performed while you are wide awake! It is usually painless and on an outpatient basis....
Injecting gas into the eye can fix a retinal detachment. This "in-office" procedure can be a convenient and successful method of operating....
Vitrectomy is a common surgery performed by retinal surgeons. It may be used effectively for retinal detachment surgery, too....
Scleral buckle surgery has been instrumental for fixing retinal detachments for over 75 years. To me, this means the surgery inherently "fixes" the problem of retinal detachments....