Last revised: October 2007
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The EyeCare Connection provides numerous articles and reports on eye health and vision care. Written and maintained by Dr. Larry Bickford, O.D., this web site is a useful source for answers to frequently asked questions and medically relevant information about the human vision system.
An in-depth report of contact lenses issues including details on soft and RGP lenses, materials, current bifocal designs, monovision and lens care. Multifocal/bifocal section revised.
EyeCare Reports are in-depth articles about various aspects of eye health and vision care. The article may be two to five pages in length. Topics include: The Aging Eye, (including presbyopia, cataracts and macular degeneration), Contact Lenses (a comprehensive report), Binocular Vision and Depth Perception, Exercises for Vision, Nutrition and Vision, Children's Vision and Development and many others.
Abstracts and Answers to Commonly Asked Questions are brief reports on a host of issues. There are abstract versions of the Eye Care Reports and many others such as: Visual Acuity, Myopia, Astigmatism, Presyopia, How The Eye Works And When It Doesn't, The Eye Exam, Ocular Emergencies---when to see the doctor, Conjunctivitis, Flashes and Floaters, Styes, Contact Lenses, The Home Eye First Aid Kit and many more.
A candid discussion of the pros and cons associated with mail order contact lenses. Replacing your contact lenses without appropriate regular, professional eye care is risky business. Although contact lenses provide safe and effective vision correction for most people, there are some who need more frequent check ups with their eye doctors to help assure a healthy contact lens experience. Please read this before considering any mail-order company.
Dr. Bickford has been in the clinical practice of optometry since 1976. He received his doctorate from the Pennsylvania College of Optometry (1976) and holds a number of other degrees including BA and BS. In 1994, he completed the post graduate curriculum in the Therapeutic Management of Ocular Diseases. In 1998, Dr. Bickford completed an internship/preceptorship with ophthalmolgists specializing in primary care, retinal and refractive surgery. He has worked in community health clinics and has maintained a private practice in general family practice eye health, vision care and contact lenses in Santa Barbara, CA.
The optometric vision care services provided in his practice include: adult and pediatric vision care, diagnostic and therapeutic eye health care, contact lenses, behavioral and wholistic vision care He employs exercises, vision system training and workspace management along with traditional ophthalmic lens correction as treatment options. Dr. Bickford is involved with fitting and dispensing the latest technolgies in contact lens materials and designs.
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