So, is it a “pseudoexfoliation pseudoinfection”? Maybe not pseudo, because it’s still possible that it’s caused by a virus; we just don’t know. Take, for example, stomach cancer. It is the #1 killer in Japan, so the government requires mandatory testing. But Japanese that have come to the United States are at a much lower … Continue reading Intraocular Pressure: Getting To The Bottom Of It (2)
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Why do some experience intraocular pressure while others do not? Why the injustice? Everyone has and needs intraocular pressure. But while everyone is concerned with having higher-than-normal pressure, lower-than-normal levels are just as bad – the eye can’t keep its shape and there isn’t enough fluid to nourish the internal organs. Higher pressures lead to … Continue reading Intraocular Pressure: Getting to the Bottom of It
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So what is this revolutionary technology, again? Regular multifocal lenses are diffractive. Loosely speaking, 40% of the light is for viewing far objects, 40% is for near, and 20% is lost along with contrast. Conventional multifocal lenses are actually bifocal, because they are good both near and far but are problematic with mid-distances – the … Continue reading A Symfony for your eyes (part 2)
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I saw a shadow move across the chocolate truffles in front of me. Maybe I have a speck of dust in my eyes. The shadow came back, though, so I had to rule out dust. Well, what about the cat? It was lying peacefully on the ironing board. Since there was no one home except … Continue reading A supernatural mystical story
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Attentive readers will recall our conversation about the unique Symfony lenses – a new artificial lens that offers perfect vision and high-contrast at any distance, or even in low light. Benjamin Eye Institute, as always, is at the forefront and has already been working with these new lenses for about a month. They were one of … Continue reading A symfony for your eyes (1)
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Everyone knows that Jorge Luis Borges was blind. A smaller number of people, though, also know that by the time he went blind, he had mastered the world of literature and philosophy, which are relevant to his fiction. But almost no one knows why he went blind, except for the experts. Searching the internet for … Continue reading Why did Borges go blind?
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Some people are extremely sensitive to color, and others are deeply unresponsive. Let’s call them chromophiliacs and chromophobiacs (sorry for these charmingly ugly words). They can get along but become sick of each other in private. For chromophiliacs living with chromophobiacs, no matter how neat things are, it is a suffocating prison. And for chromaphobiacs rooming … Continue reading Tetrachromatics’ Loneliness
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Are there many people that need this shunt? At Benjamin Eye Institute, practically every other patient has glaucoma, and the patient’s intraocular pressure will be normal for about 7 years. Many people ask: “Why is it called Benjamin Eye Institute when there’s only one Doctor Benjamin?” He is not alone! We have many specialists. Ophthalmology … Continue reading Glaucoma, Eye floaters and Symfony (2)
View More We talk to eye surgeon Arthur Benjamin about old but timeless themes, and then touch upon a new one. Let’s suppose that you get tested for cataracts and you find out you have glaucoma. What do you do? Modern ophthalmology has a new solution for this with the iStent, a trabecular microshunt. Let’s first talk … Continue reading Glaucoma, Eye floaters and Symfony
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There are companies that claim they can surgically change your eyecolor to blue. I’ve read that people with dark brown or black eyes have a lot of retinal melanin, those with green eyes less, and those with blue eyes none at all. The claim is that a 30-second laser operation can affect the pigment of … Continue reading Red and Blue, pt 2
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