Injections for Diabetic Macular Edema Treatment

The Eye Care & Surgery Center asks patients to have realistic expectations and understand the necessity of ongoing injection treatments for Diabetic Macular Edema in order to get the best vision and overall results. Researchers reporting in the British Journal of Ophthalmology shared helpful information about the importance of the VEGF inhibitor injection frequency in the treatment of diabetic macular edema. Diabetic Macular Edema is a common cause of vision loss in diabetics suffering from the effects of diabetic retinopathy. Today, we are fortunate to have a number of vascular endothelial growth inhibitor (VEGF) drugs for injection-such as Lucentis® and Eyelea®-that are helpful to treat and reverse the effects of Diabetic Macular Edema. The study confirmed that patients need to be patient as their ophthalmologists and retina specialists plan and schedule their examinations, testing and visits as sometime the best results can only be achieved multiple injections over some period of time. In general good long term results are achieved by about 4 months of injection treatment, but 20% of patients with persistent Diabetic Macular Edema at 12 months achieved a dry macula with considerable restoration of vision with sustained treatment through 24 months suggesting that persistent Diabetic Macular Edema at 4-12 months should not be used as a stopping criterion for treatment.

If you or someone you know would like to know more about the treatment of Diabetic Macular Edema with injections and the necessity of ongoing injection treatments, please feel free to call The Eye Care & Surgery Center at 908-789-8999, visit The Eye Care & Surgery Center or facebook.com/eyecareandsurgerycenter to schedule an appointment.

With locations at 592 Springfield Avenue, Westfield, New Jersey 07090, 10 Mountain Boulevard, Warren, New Jersey 07059 and 517 Route One South, Suite 1100, Iselin, New Jersey 08830, The Eye Care & Surgery Center is a leading NJ eye care practice conveniently located for patients from throughout central and northern New Jersey.

“All in the Family” LASIK

After seeing how successful my wife’s and daughter’s LASIK treatment was, I decided I also wanted the freedom of not having to wear glasses.  I traveled over 100 miles to have Dr. Confino perform this surgery.  The care, concern and total professionalism of the entire staff and the complete success of my surgery would allow me to recommend anyone who is considering LASER correction, not to hesitate to do so.

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Halloween Contact Lens Safety

The Eye Care & Surgery Center advises patients to use caution this Halloween in choosing decorative eye colorchanging contact lenses as part of their costume selections. Turning your eye color from blue to some far out appearance or ghoulish look by using over-the-counter, decorative contact lenses can be a good source of Halloween fun, BUT it can also lead to serious vision-threatening problems. The Food and Drug Administration, regulates all contact lenses as medical devices that require a prescription and proper fitting by an eye care professional. Thus, even someone with perfect vision would still require an eye exam and a prescription in order to wear any kind of contacts, including cosmetic lenses.

Risk & Danger of Non PrescriptionCosmetic Contact Lenses

Some websites advertise no prescription decorative contacts as if they were fashion accessories or toys with fanciful, playful packaging in order to attract teens and young adults, especially girls. The problem is not that people use decorative, noncorrective contacts, but that they buy the devices without a prescription through unlicensed vendors on the Internet or at flea markets and specialty shops. The purchasers and users of these over-the-counter contact lenses faces a huge risk including scratched corneas or corneal abrasion, “pink eye” conjunctivitis, infection such as corneal keratitis and corneal ulcer-the latter exposing the wearer to blinding consequences.

The safe and effective use of contact lenses-whether decorative or not-requires proper fitting and education about their care to prevent the potential for serious eye  problems from becoming a reality. If you or a friend would like to learn more about contact lenses of any type including decorative non prescription contacts please The Eye Care & Surgery Center at 908-789-8999, visit The Eye Care & Surgery Center or facebook.com/eyecareandsurgerycenter to schedule an appointment.

With locations at 592 Springfield Avenue, Westfield, New Jersey 07090, 10 Mountain Boulevard, Warren, New Jersey 07059 and 517 Route One South, Suite 1100, Iselin, New Jersey 08830, The Eye Care & Surgery Center is a leading NJ eye care practice conveniently located for patients from throughout central and northern New Jersey.