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True or False: Everyone Knows What Glaucoma Is

Blog Category, Dr. Robert Friedman, Eyes, Glaucoma, loss of sight, OCT, Poor vision, Uncategorized, vision loss

Everyone knows what glaucoma is. – That is FALSE – A Prevent Blindness America Survey found that 50% had heard of glaucoma, but weren’t sure what it was. Another 30% of people had never even heard of glaucoma. The ones that had heard of glaucoma thought it was easily cured and did not lead to […]

Glaucoma drops-Can I get rid of them?

Cataract Surgery, cataracts, Dr. Brian Foster, eye drops, Glaucoma, glaucoma medications, iStent

Is it possible to get rid of expensive glaucoma drops? YES! Denny was always afraid of losing his eyesight due to open angle glaucoma. And then when he got a cataract, he thought ‘Oh boy. Just another thing going wrong.’ But then his ophthalmologist, Dr. Brian Foster, a Bradenton glaucoma treatment specialist, explained that it […]