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North Shore Eye Care's first Symposium for Continuing Education for Optometrists was a huge success.  There were interesting speakers from many disciplines of eye care and practice management.  Our long island eye care practice in smithtown new york was proud to offer this opportunity for the local optometry population.  The day went very well and was enjoyed by all.

In our Long Island eye care practice, our board certified cataract surgeons see many patients with both macular degeneration and cataracts.  Cataract surgery in patients with macular degeneration is routine, but our Smithtown New  York patients must know that their outcome may be limited by the ability of the retina.  We carefully set expectations when it comes to cataract surgery in patients with macular degeneration.

Here at North Shore Eye Care, all of our board certified physicians Dr Sidney Martin, Dr Larry Zweibel, Dr Jeff Martin and Dr John Mauro, all are experienced in the proper screening, diagnosis and treatment of many eye diseases. This includes: glaucoma, cataracts, diabetes, macular degeneration, dry eye syndrome, uveitis, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, allergies, emergency eye problems and general eye examinations. In addition, we are one of Long Island's leading authorities in laser refractive surgery (LASIK/PRK/LASEK). In Long Island (suffolk and nassau counties), we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, cold spring harbor, huntington, commack, northport, dix hills, melville, centerport, greenlawn, plainview, woodbury, syosset, massapequa, sayville, manhasset, jericho, muttontown, east meadow, merrick, rockville center, garden city, mineola, roslyn, manhasset, levittown, new york city, brooklyn, bronx, queens, and many other towns.

Macular degeneration is a widespread eye condition that causes loss of central vision in patients.  Typically, macular degeneration is an eye problem of advancing age and is more typical in fair skin and light eyed patients.  Macular degeneration runs in families and tends to occur slowly; therefore regular eye examinations are important.  The eye doctors at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown new york in Long island examine many patients with this eye problem and typically see drusen or calcification in the macula, which is the center of the retina, as the first sign.  Patient complain of metamorphopsia which describes distortion of a visual image.  There are treatments for macular degeneration including eye vitamins, laser and possible injections for wet macular degeneration.  Macular degeneration is dry when there is no bleeding under the retina and wet when new blood vessels form and start to bleed under the retina.  As patients age, cataracts develop as well.  A cataract is a clouding of the natural lens of the eye.  When a cataract develops in a patient with macular degeneration, it can be difficult to determine whether vision loss is attributed to the cataract or the damage to the retina.

At North Shore Eye Care, our board certified cataract surgeons attempt to make sure that cataract surgery in the setting of macular degeneration will be helpful to our Long Island patients.  We have the retina evaluated by a retinal specialist and use highly technologic tests like OCT. Our cataract doctors do counsel our patients to make sure that expectations can be achieved.  We help our macular degeneration patients to understand that cataract surgery will have certain visual benefits, but may be limited based on retinal disease.  At times, we are pleasantly suprised with the visual performance after cataract surgery.  If you have macular degeneration and are told that you have cataracts as well, contact the cataract specialists at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York for an eye evaluation.

In Long island new york in suffolk and nassau counties, we see patients from smithtown, nesconset, saint james, kings park, centereach, selden, coram, middle island, riverhead, ridge, stony brook, setauket, port jefferson, miller place, mt. sinai, rocky point, shoreham, wading river, yaphank, shirley, mastic, moriches, patchogue, medford, bellport, bayport, brookhaven, bluepoint, manorville, cutchogue, calverton, jamesport, mattituck, southold, eastport, remsenburg, westhampton, east hampton, quogue, hampton bays, southampton, sag harbor, montauk, amagansett, and many other towns.