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Tips For Selecting Children’s Eyeglass Frames

The first pair of eyeglasses is a big deal for anyone at any age! But getting the first pair of eyeglasses for a child can feel like a real challenge! Often, the selection of frames within an optical store can be huge! Having no shortage of selection in children’s eyeglass frames can make the process of selecting a frame confusing and overwhelming. You want the best for your kid, so how do you know what frame will be appropriate and best suited for them!? Here are some tips to help you out!

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How To Protect Your Eyesight

Our eyes go to work for us, first thing in the morning when we wake up, and they don’t stop working until we go to bed! Vision is such an important aspect of our everyday world. Most of us can’t even truly imagine what our lives would be like if we couldn’t see. That’s why protecting and maintaining healthy eyes and vision is very important. It is one of the most important things that you can do to maintain your quality of life. Here are some tips on how you can protect your eyesight.

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Smoking And Your Vision

We’ve all heard and seen the pictures that illustrate just how BAD smoking is for people. Many of us even know of someone who has battled with illness as a result of smoking! So if smoking is so bad, why do so many people still do it? If the list of common known reasons, why smoking is bad isn’t enough, we are going to try and bring attention to one more in our blog post this week. Smoking is also harmful on eye health!

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The Benefits Of Contact Lenses!

With January being the start of a new year, often people are in a mood for change! If you are a full time glasses wearer, a change may be to introduce contact lenses to correct your vision. Wearing a contact lens can really help improve an eyeglass wearers life in so many different ways. Being free of wearing eyeglasses offers a cosmetic change and also freedom and flexibility that eyeglasses can’t. Here are just a few reason’s why people may consider wearing contacts.

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12 Weeks to Beautiful Eyelashes With Latisse ®

A new year is often a time when people make a conscious effort to change different aspects about their life. Some of the more popular New Years resolutions are to lose weight, get it shape, stop smoking… A New Years resolution can be anything…. Even new, bigger, beautiful lashes!!! If you’re wanting to make a change to your appearance that will enhance the natural beauty of your eyes, there is a new lash enhancing option for you! Here at the Glenmore Landing Vision Centre, we are pleased to now be offering Latisse ® eyelash enhancing treatments to our patients!

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New Years Resolutions and Healthy Eyes

Out with the old, in with the new! It’s almost New Years, and for many people this also means a start to their new years resolutions.  The ringing in of a new year is an excellent time to start working on self improvements, such as health and fitness goals using a healthy diet and the program in this Science Based Six Pack review. Especially after consuming the many sweets that appear in abundance during the holiday season. But did you know that many of the common New Years resolutions that people make, can also have a benefit to eye health? Our blog article this week explores the connection between three common New Years resolutions and healthy eyes.

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A Christmas Feast For The Eyes – Healthy Eyes

The holiday season is a time of joy, cheer, and food, food… FOOD! For many of us, we use the holidays as an excuse to ignore our diets and indulge in all the yummy feasts and treats that make the holiday season just that much merrier. So, to help with any guilt that you may feel while indulging in all that amazing food, we’ve come up with a list of some Christmas food staples and how they are good for your vision and healthy eyes!

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Understanding Being Colour Blind

Red and white candy canes, emerald green christmas trees, and cherry red Santa suits. Red and green are definitely the trade mark colours of Christmas! But did you know that the colours red and green are also the colours that are most often affected when people are colour blind? Many people think that being colour blind, means seeing the world in shades of black, grey, and white. Often people are not aware of what being colour blind truly means. Being colour blind is a fairly common condition (especially in men). Our blog article this week hopefully can answer some questions on this fairly common eye condition.  

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What is Astigmatism Correction, And Just How Is It Corrected?

Many people think that if they have an astigmatism, they have a special eye condition. However, astigmatism is a very common vision problem. An astigmatism is a refractive error in vision, just like being farsighted or nearsighted. It is caused by having an eye which is not shaped round or spherical, but more like an egg or football. This causes light to bend in different directions and not focus on the back of the eye properly. A recommendation for vision correction will be made, if you are found to have an astigmatism during your vision exam. Astigmatism is normally corrected with eyeglasses or contact lenses. Some patients may even get their astigmatism corrected with laser eye surgery.

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What Are the Advantages Of Multiple Eyeglasses?

It’s getting to be that time of year again, when you may find yourself with some unused optical benefits, or with left over money in a health spending account. Many insurance plans expire at the end of the year. Often, unused benefit dollars will not be carried forward. If you don’t use them, you lose them! This year, If you find yourself with extra money to put towards your eye care or multiple eyeglasses, now is a great time to do it! Many people are not aware that there are many advantages to owning multiple pairs of eyeglasses.

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