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Here’s Why You Should Ask Your Relatives About Their Eye Health

Date: 09.24.2022 | Posted by: Access Eye

Patients expect their physicians to ask about family history of heart disease, cancer and addiction, but they are generally less prepared when their eye doctor asks similar questions about their parents’ and grandparents’ eye health. If that’s a topic you’ve never broached with your loved ones, it may be time to...

Eye Floaters and When to Seek Treatment?

Date: 08.25.2022 | Posted by: Access Eye

Eye floaters are small specks or strings that show up and drift around in your field of vision. For over 40 years, the award-winning team of eye doctors at Access Eye have helped patients in the Fredericksburg, Stafford, King George and Spotsylvania area by treating their floaters. Here, these doctors explain...

Nearsightedness How Life Gets Better When You Overcome It

Date: 07.26.2022 | Posted by: Access Eye

Do you see clearly when you look at objects up close but have difficulty when focusing your eyes on something in the distance? This is an indication you have myopia (or nearsightedness,) a refractive error that affects over 30% of Americans. At Access Eye, our talented doctors treat patients with myopia...

Keep Your Eyes Safe This Summer with These Tips

Date: 06.26.2022 | Posted by: Access Eye

Now that summer has arrived, chances are that you are spending more time outdoors. While you get some much-needed fresh air, the team at Access Eye also encourages you to protect your eyes. To help you get through the summer without developing any serious eye conditions, diseases or injuries, our eye...

How to Put On Scleral Lenses

Scleral Contact Lenses Fredericksburg, VA

Date: 05.27.2022 | Posted by: Access Eye

Scleral lenses are rigid gas permeable (RGP) and significantly larger than traditional contact lenses. The size and shape of these lenses allow them to rest against the sclera (the white, outer part of the eyeball) rather than atop the cornea. Patients who wear scleral lenses generally find them to be more...

What Is a Cataract?

Cataract Surgeon Fredericksburg, Stafford, Spotsylvania and King George |

Date: 04.11.2022 | Posted by: Access Eye

If you are like most people, you may not give much thought to cataracts — at least not until they impact your own vision. However, because cataracts affect fully half the U.S. population age 80 and over, it is certainly worthwhile to know about them before they pose a problem. To...

Wear Contact Lenses? Why You Should Always Have a Pair of Backup Glasses

Date: 03.13.2022 | Posted by: Access Eye

At Access Eye, we love to help our patients make the switch to contact lenses. Most people love the convenience, ease, comfort and invisibility that contacts afford. However, our optometrists still strongly recommend that patients who love their contact lenses keep a pair of glasses at home. These backup glasses offer...

What Is the Difference between Vision Insurance and Medical Insurance?

Medical Insurance | Fredericksburg, Stafford, Spotsylvania and King George, VA

Date: 02.12.2022 | Posted by: Access Eye

Through daily communication with our patients, the team at Access Eye understands how tricky it can be to figure out the differences between vision insurance and medical insurance. To help you navigate this difficult subject, our staff has prepared the following guide:

January Is Glaucoma Awareness Month: What You Should Know

Date: 01.14.2022 | Posted by: Access Eye

Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide, yet the team at Access Eye has found that many of our patients do not understand what the condition is — at least not until they have been diagnosed with it. Since January marks National Glaucoma Awareness Month, our doctors have...

Habits to Keep Your Eyes Healthy

Date: 12.16.2021 | Posted by: Access Eye

When patients are diagnosed with an ocular disorder, they sometimes ask what they could have done to prevent it. Although many eye conditions are influenced by genetics, the eye doctors at Access Eye do have some general eye health tips that can reduce your risk for developing certain eye and vision...