‘Tis the Season to Fall for IRPL and Say Bye to Dry Eyes!

We are midway through September, and there is a crisp, drier change to the air. Despite the seasonal changes, you may have been struggling with dry eyes, especially if you spend lots of time working in front of a computer or spend lots of time outdoors. Dry Eye Disease develops when your natural tears can’t…

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Dry Eye Gadgets and Gizmos: Eye-light® and LLLT

Good day, Merivale Vision Care friends! Thank you for coming back to tune into our third blog installment all about our amazing, high-tech, innovative, and effective Dry Eye treatment gadgets and gizmos. Today we will be learning all about our cool Innova gadget called Eye-light® and LLLT, otherwise known as Low-Level Light Therapy, and how…

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Show your Dry Eyes some Love with these Lotions and Potions

If dry eyes are getting you down, then it’s time to turn that frown upside down. We have the solution for you! Alongside Dry Eye treatments in the office, we also offer other products that can help give you dry eye relief at home. Read on for our love list of favourite eye care lotions…

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Our Dry Eye Treatment Unsung Hero: The BRUDER Moist Heat Eye Compress

If you’ve hung out with us for a while, you’ll have read all about our amazing new Dry Eye treatment services, and the cool gadgets and gizmos we have in office to help relieve those desert-like eyeballs. Sometimes it’s not the big fancy equipment that should get all the accolades though, sometimes it’s the frequently…

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Dry Eye Gadgets and Gizmos: E>Eye IRPL Technology

Welcome back to the second installment of our dry eye gadgets and gizmos treatment series! This week, we will be sharing all about our E>Eye IRPL device for the treatment of dry eye. IRPL stands for Intense Regulated Pulsed Light, and our new E>Eye is the first medical device in the word using IRPL technology…

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Dry Eye Gadgets and Gizmos – Oculus Keratograph

Hello MVC family! In the not too distant past, we shared the exciting news about our recently opened Dry Eye Treatment Clinic, and all the new gadgets and gizmos that help us treat those dry peepers. Let’s take a deeper dive into the cool factor of each dry eye gadget and gizmo. First up, the…

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Dry Eye in the Winter

There’s nothing more enjoyable then sitting in your car waiting for it to defrost in –30 C weather with the heat blasting in your face. Am I right? Your eyes start to burn and feel like fire. You park your car and everything takes a drastic turn because your eyes start weeping once you step foot outside…

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Scleral Contact Lenses: The Basics

Here at Merivale Vision Care, we pride ourselves on providing our patients with the best vision possible. We offer many speciality vision solutions. Certain people will benefit from aids such as magnifiers, while others require personalized glasses solutions such as prisms. In some cases, speciality contact lenses, such as scleral contacts, will be the solution.…

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