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When your eyes are healthy and young, the lens that focuses light from the world to the back of your eye and then to the brain is clear. Time and trauma can cause proteins to deposit on the lens, however, transforming clarity to fogginess. A clouded lens is called a cataract.  Peering through cataracts is like […]

Museums take great care to choose the right frames to display priceless works of art. Eyelashes can be thought of as the frames to the “windows of your soul,” and if your eyelashes don’t perfectly frame and enhance the beauty and vibrancy of your eyes, you may feel cheated. Why are some people born with

In 2022, the top minimally invasive cosmetic procedures were neuromodulators made of botulism type A, such as Botox®, and dermal fillers, such as those in the Juvéderm® line. These two procedures and methods occupy the first and second spots, respectively.  If you haven’t yet experienced the effects of Botox and fillers, you may wonder why so

After age 50, both women and men are at risk for an irritating condition called dry eyes. However, women are much more likely to develop dry eyes than men are. The hormonal down-shifting that occurs with menopause has an unlikely side effect: It affects the surface of your eye and its tears. At Eye Associates of Monmouth in

Glaucoma is the No. 1 cause of permanent and irreversible blindness in the United States and the rest of the world. If you have glaucoma, something prevents the fluids from draining from your eye, which creates pressure that permanently damages your optic nerve. The most common type of glaucoma in the US is open-angle glaucoma, which affects approximately 2.7

The macula is the part of your retina that controls your central vision — in other words, the things that you see directly in front of you and that tend to be in sharpest focus. Due to aging, your lifestyle, and the environment, your macula may begin to degenerate.  Over time, you lose your central

A red eye isn’t a normal or healthy eye. Either you’ve somehow irritated your eye, traumatized your eye, or your eye is exhibiting a symptom of a possibly serious and potentially vision-threatening condition. When the whites of your eyes turn red, our expert ophthalmologist John Ghobrial, MD, at Eye Associates of Monmouth in Colts Neck, New Jersey, can determine why.

About half of white adults in the United States have cataracts by the time they’re 75 years old. By age 80, that number swells to 70%, and 53% of African Americans and 61% of Hispanic Americans have joined their ranks. Cataracts don’t improve on their own. The only way to resolve them is to remove the eye’s cloudy

About one-third of women and men in the United States who have diabetes develop a potentially vision-threatening condition called diabetic retinopathy. The more severe cases of retinopathy, which may lead to blindness, affect Mexican Americans twice as often and African Americans three times as often as they do Caucasians. If you have diabetes, it’s extra important to

You probably know that the sun’s comforting warmth is dangerous to unprotected skin. Exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light in the sun’s rays increases your risk for skin cancer. But those UVA and UVB rays can also damage your eyes. If you’re sensitive to light, you may already wear sunglasses when outdoors. However, the wrong type