Have you ever been told that regular, run of the mill soft contacts won’t work for you? Do you have unsatisfactory vision with soft contact lenses and/or glasses? Do you find soft contacts uncomfortable? Do you have dry eye symptoms? We are happy to share that we are able to solve all these issues (and …
Dry eye disease has been a hot topic over the past year as we have all spent countless hours glued to screens of all shapes and sizes. Dr. Gorecki introduced this topic in his previous blog post (https://waterdownoptometric.ca/dry-eye-syndrome-101/). As he discussed, dry eye symptoms are often exacerbated by time in front of a screen due …
Over the last 12 months we have experienced our lives shift to a digital world where social events, family gatherings, gym classes, and even school are fully remote and usually happening on a screen. This begs the question: what impacts will this have on our children from a visual standpoint? One trend that the doctors …
Several years ago the doctors at the Waterdown Optometric Clinic (WOC) decided that we wanted to broaden our treatment options for patients with dry eye disease (DED). We were seeing more and more patients with problems related to DED every month and, more alarmingly, we were seeing signs and symptoms in progressively younger patients. Life …
It has been a long 11 weeks since Waterdown Optometric Clinic had its doors open for routine care. The world has changed a lot since then and so has the way things will be running in our office for the foreseeable future. We have been busy during our time at home refining our protocols to …
Learn about how our team at WOC is still trying to meet your eye care needs during these unprecedented times
