Advanced Retina Care

09/27/2025

Friday Funnies!

09/18/2025

Throwback Thursday! Fond Memories of our late patient, Paul, putting the very first sticker on our Eye Wall. ❤️

09/17/2025

Our gifted patient, Maria, and the beautiful cap she knitted! It’s absolutely gorgeous! 🧡

09/15/2025

Slit Lamp:
The slit lamp exam uses an instrument that provides a magnified, three-dimensional (3-D) view of the different parts of the eye . During the exam, your doctor can look at the front parts of the eye, including the clear, outer covering (cornea), the lens, the colored part (iris), and the front section of the gel-like fluid (vitreous gel) that fills the large space in the middle of the eye.
Special lenses can be placed between the slit lamp and the cornea (or directly on the cornea) to view deeper structures of the eye, such as the optic nerve, retina, and the angle where fluid drains out of the eye.
A slit lamp exam, also known as biomicroscopy, uses a microscope with a bright light to examine the structures of the eye, both at the front and inside, allowing doctors to detect various eye diseases and conditions. It's a crucial part of a comprehensive eye exam and can help diagnose issues like cataracts, corneal damage, retinal detachment, and macular degeneration

09/14/2025

09/13/2025

Asteroid Hyalosis
This is the only eye condition that can make the inside of your eye look like a star-struck night sky. The only problem is that you can’t see it for yourself, unless your eye care practitioner takes a photograph of the inside of the eye. Normally, there are no symptoms of asteroid hyalosis at all, and in fact most people who have it don’t know it.
The eyes are filled with a substance called the vitreous humour, or vitreous body, which is a transparent gelatin that takes up the space between the structures in the front of the eye and the retina in the very back.
As we age, the vitreous either thin out and become more liquid, or it becomes thicker, to form clumps or strands we sometimes notice as floaters. Asteroid hyalosis occurs when small calcium and phosphate deposits form and adhere to the vitreous gel, slowly at first, but more deposits appear over time. Eventually, the vitreous becomes filled with multiple yellow or yellow-white particles, suspended on the strands or clumps. As you move your eyes, the deposits also move and sway within the semi-liquid of the vitreous, returning to their original position when the eye stops moving.
The term asteroid hyalosis refers to the reflection of light from the deposits, which make them appear to the viewer as multiple stars in the night sky.

09/12/2025

Valley Center for the Blind! Dining in the Dark!