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Imagine for a moment that all of the tasks that you do everyday suddenly became substantially more difficult to perform. If doing what you normally do suddenly became a serious chore, how would you adapt? For a lot of people this isn’t a hypothetical situation as low vision is part of their daily life. In […]

January comes a month of the year when people should stop and think about glaucoma. While it may not seem like glaucoma is a big deal, this eye disease develops into a serious problem that affects many people. Glaucoma steals people’s vision. It does so quietly and without warning. It isn’t painful and it doesn’t […]

Many things exist that can compromise your vision, and many of them can be prevented by simply making a few life changes that aren’t that difficult to make. As any doctor would tell you, a few small changes early on in life can make a lot of difference down the line. And since human beings […]

LASIK surgery developed into one of the most effective and long-lasting solutions for vision correction treatments. Although it is a fairly simple process, just like any other medical procedure, it does come with its own set of risks and complications. However, these risks can become mitigated significantly if your eye surgeon has years of experience […]

Taking care of your eyes carries a powerful built in motivation. If you neglect this, your eyes may age poorly and your vision may suffer terrible. If you neglect this, your eyes may age poorly and your vision may suffer terribly. Worse still, your eye health can be a barometer of your overall health — […]

There’s a new way to personalize your body: adding bling to your eye. The bling is called eyeball jewelry. The jewel is a stud made of platinum and comes in four different shapes: heart, music note, Euro symbol, and four-leaf clover. It is about 3.5-mm wide, and it glitters. It is "pierced" into the eye […]

For years, colored contact lenses have provided people the option to change the color of their eyes into any color that they want from blue, green, ice gray, purple and even a rainbow color. Colored contact lenses, however, are only temporary. For those who want to change their eye color permanently, a new procedure called […]

Winter is here so are the cold winter winds. Time to bring out your mittens and jackets, and if you suffer from dry eyes, bring your eye lubricants, too, for nothing can make dry eyes worse than cold, dry air.  Why Do Dry Eyes Get Worse in the Winter? In healthy eyes our tear glands […]

Sugarland Eye & Laser Center would like to wish everyone happy and safe holidays during Safe Toys and Celebration Month! Everyone is looking forward to the season as December is the time of year when we get together with family and friends for fun and festivities and also to exchange gifts. But did you know […]

Oh the joys of buying a new TV. So many options and so many things to consider that by the time we buy one, we have convinced ourselves that it is definitely worth our money. With the ultra-high definition, who can argue? The technology along makes it all worth the additional hundreds of dollars, right? […]