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A Guide to Finding the Best Costume Contacts

A lot of Halloween costumes and cosplay outfits aren't really complete without costume contact lenses. This can be difficult, however, because unlike an intricately crafted outfit, costume contacts are medical devices, so it's important for the safety of your eyes that you source good costume len...

What Does Being Colorblind Mean?

Just because someone is colorblind, it doesn’t mean they see the world like a black-and-white movie. That type of color blindness does exist and is called monochromacy, but it is by far the rarest form of color blindness. There are different ways it can happen, just like there are different way...

What Causes Heterochromia?

Eye color is one of the first traits we notice when we meet someone new. If you’ve ever met someone with two different eye colors, then you’ve seen what heterochromia looks like. Only three out of every five hundred people have it, though, so it’s not that common (but you might have seen an...

Blue Light and Our Eyes

What is your routine as you get ready for bed? Most of our nightly routines include items like brushing teeth, taking out contact lenses, and washing our faces, but how many of us also make sure to check our smartphones for any last updates before we go to sleep? This probably isn’t the best wa...

Presbyopia, Bifocals, and Progressives

Presbyopia is farsightedness caused by the increasing rigidity of the lens in the eye as we age. It affects nearly everyone older than 65, and for the 42 percent of Americans who are already nearsighted, this creates a complication. People who previously had 20/20 vision can just grab a pair of r...

Which Contact Lenses Are Right for You?

There are a lot of things to consider when choosing a new pair of glasses, but what about new contacts? There may not be quite as much variety because you don’t have to think about frame shape and color, but there are still several different types of contact lenses to choose from. Let’s take ...

All About Glaucoma

Our eyes are incredible, complicated organs. Many different components need to work together for us to be able to see. This means that when one of those components breaks down, it can cause big problems for eyesight. A component you might not think of is the pressure of the fluid inside the eye. ...

Follow These Tips to Protect Your Eyesight

Protecting our eyesight is one of the most basic things we can do to maintain a good quality of life. One in six adults deals with a sight-threatening eye problem, and many more than that will experience increasing vision loss with age. Leading causes of blindness and low vision are age-related d...

Vision and the Challenges of Night Driving

In winter, when the days are shorter, we tend to end up driving more at night. For those of us without perfect eyesight, this can be an increasingly stressful adjustment to make every year, and we should all take the dangers of night driving into careful consideration. It won’t just make a diff...

How Our Eyesight Changes as We Age

The majority of people will experience changes to their eyesight as they age. It’s essential to stay on the watch for signs of age-related vision loss the older we get. As eye health professionals, one of our priorities is making sure our patients are informed so that they both know what to exp...

Winter Is Here! Are Your Eyes Protected?

When we think of sunburns, most of us probably imagine sandy beaches and summer heat, but we can get sunburned in any season, including winter. In fact, winter can be even more dangerous in some ways. Just because most of our skin is bundled up from the cold, that doesn’t mean our eyes are safe...

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A Guide to Finding the Best Costume Contacts

What Does Being Colorblind Mean?

What Causes Heterochromia?

Blue Light and Our Eyes

Presbyopia, Bifocals, and Progressives

Which Contact Lenses Are Right for You?

All About Glaucoma

Follow These Tips to Protect Your Eyesight

Vision and the Challenges of Night Driving

How Our Eyesight Changes as We Age

Winter Is Here! Are Your Eyes Protected?

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Vision Source Coppell / Elliott Eye Associates Blog

A Guide to Finding the Best Costume Contacts

What Does Being Colorblind Mean?

What Causes Heterochromia?

Blue Light and Our Eyes

Presbyopia, Bifocals, and Progressives

Which Contact Lenses Are Right for You?

All About Glaucoma

Follow These Tips to Protect Your Eyesight

Vision and the Challenges of Night Driving

How Our Eyesight Changes as We Age

Winter Is Here! Are Your Eyes Protected?

All Eye Care Services

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Contact Information

Hours of Operation

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