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Dawson Eye Group Blog is your trusted source for informative articles, expert insights, and valuable tips related to eye health and vision care. Explore a wealth of knowledge on topics ranging from eye conditions, vision correction options, to maintaining optimal eye wellness. Stay informed and prioritize your eye health with our engaging and educational blog content.

Makeup Tips For Glasses Wearers

Makeup is a wonderful tool to help enhance the natural beauty we were born with. There are so many different types of makeup with many different effects. However, things can get a little complicated for glasses-wearers. Sometimes it feels like all our hard work is for nothing because the glasses ...

Helping Your Child Develop Healthy Vision

Seeing isn’t just something babies do automatically; they have to learn how first! Just like learning how to walk and talk, babies have to develop a number of visual skills in order to use their eyes effectively and understand what they’re looking at. It’s a process that parents can do a lo...

How Smoking Harms Eye Health

Smoking is harmful to every system in the body, including eyesight. Lung cancer is the risk we most commonly associate with a smoking habit, followed by oral health problems, but it doesn’t stop with the parts of the body the smoke comes in contact with. As eye doctors, we want to focus on how ...

A Quick Round of Optometry FAQs

We hear a lot of the same questions from our patients, so let’s address them in an FAQ! You’d be surprised how many patients wonder the same things about eye health and optometry. If you’ve been too shy to ask one of these but have always wondered, you won’t have to anymore! 5. Is staring...

Diabetes and Eyesight

Healthy vision is one of the many things diabetes can harm if it isn’t carefully controlled. This is true for both type 1, type 2, and even gestational diabetes (which works like type 2 while it lasts). With diabetes, the risk of developing a number of eye diseases goes up, including cataracts,...

Retinal Detachment Warning Signs

Human eyes are remarkable, highly complex organs. Most of the time, they’re able to function fairly well, but there’s a lot that can go wrong. The one we want to focus on today is retinal detachment, a condition that will affect 1 in every 300 people sometime during their lives. Retinal detac...

A Brief History of Glasses

People have been using vision-correcting tools of some kind since as early as 60 A.D. Roman philosopher Seneca from that time used a glass globe of water to magnify the text he was reading, and Emperor Nero couldn’t see gladiator fights very well without his magnifying emerald. We’re glad we ...

The Levels of Visual Impairment

Not all vision problems can be corrected by wearing glasses or contacts. When vision is so poor that corrective lenses aren’t enough, we call it visual impairment. It’s important for everyone to be aware of the vision problems that fall into this umbrella, because whether they affect us perso...

Sleep and Vision

When we don’t manage to get a full night’s sleep, we feel it long into the next day. Studies show that sleep deprivation has similar effects on the body and mind as alcohol. But what does sleep have to do with eyesight? You might be surprised. Getting enough sleep does wonders for our overall...

Tips for Home Eye Safety

Almost half of the eye injuries that happen each year happen at home! That means that, in the places people should be safest, they’re still getting over a million eye injuries a year. The good news is that eye injuries are easy to prevent, so let’s take a look at the measures we can take to m...

Can Makeup Be Bad for Our Eyes?

Modern makeup doesn’t contain lead, mercury, and arsenic like it used to in bygone eras. Still, how safe is it around our eyes? We’ve all heard that beauty is pain, but we in the eye care business have to put our foot down when it comes to unnecessary eye infection and injury risks. We’re n...

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Dawson Eye Group Blog

Makeup Tips For Glasses Wearers

Helping Your Child Develop Healthy Vision

How Smoking Harms Eye Health

A Quick Round of Optometry FAQs

Diabetes and Eyesight

Retinal Detachment Warning Signs

A Brief History of Glasses

The Levels of Visual Impairment

Sleep and Vision

Tips for Home Eye Safety

Can Makeup Be Bad for Our Eyes?

All Eye Care Services

Keep In Touch

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Hours of Operation

Blog

Dawson Eye Group Blog

Makeup Tips For Glasses Wearers

Helping Your Child Develop Healthy Vision

How Smoking Harms Eye Health

A Quick Round of Optometry FAQs

Diabetes and Eyesight

Retinal Detachment Warning Signs

A Brief History of Glasses

The Levels of Visual Impairment

Sleep and Vision

Tips for Home Eye Safety

Can Makeup Be Bad for Our Eyes?

All Eye Care Services

Keep In Touch

Contact Information

Hours of Operation

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