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Anti-VEGF Injections (Intravitreal Injections)
Retina injections that quiet leaky blood vessels in wet AMD, diabetic eye disease, vein occlusions, and related conditions.
Botulinum Toxin Injection (Botox)
Targeted botulinum toxin injections for eyelid spasms, hemifacial spasm, and selected eye-misalignment problems.
Intravitreal Injection
A quick office procedure that places medicine inside the eye for retina disease, inflammation, infection, or swelling.
IV Steroid Treatment
Short courses of high-dose IV corticosteroids for urgent optic nerve and eye inflammation, including optic neuritis and suspected giant cell arteritis.
IVIG (Intravenous Immunoglobulin)
An infusion of pooled antibodies used to calm selected autoimmune nerve and eye conditions, often when speed matters but plasma exchange is not ideal.
Cataract Surgery
Surgery to remove the eye's cloudy natural lens and replace it with a clear implant, with lens choices that shape life after surgery.
Corneal Cross-Linking (CXL)
A cornea-strengthening procedure using riboflavin and UV-A light to slow keratoconus or post-refractive ectasia before more vision is lost.
Endothelial Keratoplasty (DMEK / DSAEK)
Partial-thickness corneal transplant surgery that replaces the failed inner pump layer while leaving most of the patient's cornea intact.
Eyelid Surgery (Blepharoplasty)
Eyelid operations for drooping lids, extra skin, lid malposition, or exposure problems that affect vision, comfort, or appearance.
Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL)
A removable lens implanted behind the iris to correct moderate to high myopia and astigmatism when corneal laser surgery is not ideal.
Optic Nerve Sheath Fenestration
Eye-socket surgery that opens the optic nerve sheath to protect vision when papilledema from high pressure is threatening sight.
Orbital Decompression Surgery
Surgery that enlarges the bony eye socket in thyroid eye disease. It is urgent and sight-saving when swollen tissue strangles the optic nerve, and rehabilitative when the goal is to reverse bulging and protect the cornea.
Pneumatic Retinopexy
An office-based procedure for selected retinal detachments using an intraocular gas bubble plus laser or freezing to seal the tear.
PRK (Photorefractive Keratectomy)
A flap-free laser vision correction surgery with slower recovery than LASIK but advantages for certain corneas and lifestyles.
Ptosis Surgery
Surgery to lift a drooping upper eyelid when it blocks vision, causes strain, or creates a bothersome lid-height difference.
Scleral Buckle Surgery
A retinal detachment surgery that places silicone support around the eye to indent the wall and close retinal tears. Often combined with vitrectomy.
Strabismus Surgery
Eye muscle surgery to improve eye alignment, treat double vision, or support binocular vision when non-surgical options are insufficient.
Trabeculectomy
A glaucoma filtering surgery that creates a new drainage route and bleb when drops or laser cannot lower pressure enough.
Vitrectomy
A retina surgery that removes the vitreous gel from inside the eye to treat retinal detachment, vitreous hemorrhage, macular holes, and other conditions.
Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) for Dry Eye and Rosacea
An in-office light treatment for MGD-related dry eye, especially when rosacea and lid-margin vessels are part of the problem.
Laser Peripheral Iridotomy (LPI)
A quick iris laser that creates a bypass opening for fluid in pupillary-block angle closure and certain narrow-angle eyes.
Meibomian Gland Expression
An in-office treatment that presses thick oil out of clogged eyelid glands to improve evaporative dry eye and MGD.
Panretinal Photocoagulation (PRP)
Scatter laser for proliferative diabetic retinopathy and retinal ischemia, trading some peripheral retina treatment for lower risk of catastrophic bleeding.
Punctal Plugs
Small plugs placed in the tear drains so natural tears and eye drops stay on the eye surface longer.
Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty (SLT)
A repeatable office laser for open-angle glaucoma that helps the eye's own drain lower pressure, often before or alongside drops.
Microvascular Decompression
The Jannetta operation for hemifacial spasm: a neurosurgeon cushions the artery that is pulsing against the facial nerve at the brainstem. It targets the cause rather than masking the twitch, and in well-selected patients the relief can be lasting.
VP Shunt (Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt)
An implanted tube-and-valve system that drains cerebrospinal fluid from the brain to the abdomen, sometimes used in IIH when vision is threatened.
Low Vision Rehabilitation
Practical training, devices, and home strategies that help people with permanent vision loss use the sight they still have.
Occlusion Therapy (Patching)
Patching or blurring one eye to quiet double vision, or to treat amblyopia in children when the stronger eye needs a timeout.
Prism Glasses
Glasses lenses that bend light so two images line up again, often used for steady double vision.
Vision Therapy
Targeted eye-teaming and focusing exercises for diagnosed convergence or accommodative problems, with measurable goals and limits on broader learning-related claims.
Plasmapheresis (Plasma Exchange)
Plasma exchange filters harmful antibodies from the blood during severe autoimmune attacks affecting the optic nerves, eyes, or nervous system.
Radiation Therapy for Eye Conditions
Targeted radiation for tumors near the eye or visual pathways, and selected inflammatory orbital conditions such as severe thyroid eye disease.
Thymectomy
Removal of the thymus to treat a resectable thymoma or selected myasthenia gravis. Improvement in myasthenia can develop over months to years, while medications continue.