According to the US department of Health & Human Services, “Eye injuries of all types occur at a rate of more than 2,000 per day. In particular, an estimated 1,000 eye injuries occur in American workplaces alone. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) found that almost 70% of the eye injuries studied occur from falling or flying objects, or sparks striking the eye. It is estimated that over 90% of eye injuries are preventable with the use of proper safety eye wear. Eye Injury can change your life with impaired sight or even blindness. We urge you to wear proper fitting, suitable, safety goggles to protect yourself. If you do sustain an eye injury, an emergent visit to the ophthalmologist is necessary. The longer the injury is untreated, the greater the chance of irreversible damage to the eye. Contact us if you happen to suffer an eye injury at your workplace.
April Newsletter
Grosinger, Spigelman & Grey Eye Surgeons provide precision technology for the 21st Century.
Winter is almost over, and outdoor activities will be starting. Playing sports with glasses at times could be difficult and dangerous.Grosinger, Spigelman & Grey Eye Surgeons care about your well being. With over 20,000 thousand LASIK surgeries performed, award winning surgeons are offering a special for the month of April with a $500 discount for LASIK Surgery on both eyes. The offer is limited to first 10 callers !!!
From the Blog:
The Quest to Create a Bionic Eye Gets Clearer
Restoring sight to the blind has proved particularly challenging for scientists, but a new technology combining an eye implant and video-camera-enabled glasses may soon be available in the U.S. Researchers have been pursuing the development of such a bionic eye for decades, in some cases spending hundreds of millions of dollars…[Read more].
15 Things Didn’t Know About Eyes
- The average blink lasts for about 1/10th of a second.
- While it takes some time for most parts of your body to warm up to their full potential, your eyes are on their “A game” 24/7.
- Eyes heal quickly. With proper care, it only takes about 48 hours for the eye to repair a corneal scratch.
- Seeing is such a big part of everyday life that it requires about half of the brain to get involved.
- Newborns don’t produce tears. They make crying sounds, but the tears don’t start flowing until they are about 4-13 weeks old.
- Around the world, about 39 million people are blind and roughly 6 times that many have some kind of vision impairment.
- Doctors have yet to find a way to transplant an eyeball. The optic nerve that connects the eye to the brain is too sensitive to reconstruct successfully.
- The cells in your eye come in different shapes. Rod-shaped cells allow you to see shapes, and cone-shaped cells allow you to see color.
- You blink about 12 times every minute.
- Your eyes are about 1 inch across and weigh about 0.25 ounce.
- Some people are born with two differently colored eyes. This condition is heterochromia.
- Even if no one in the past few generations of your family had blue or green eyes, these recessive traits can still appear in later generations.
- Each of your eyes has a small blind spot in the back of the retina where the optic nerve attaches. You don’t notice the hole in your vision because your eyes work together to fill in each other’s blind spot.
- Out of all the muscles in your body, the muscles that control your eyes are the most active.
- 80% of vision problems worldwide are avoidable or even curable.
Optical Illusion of the month
