Photo Therapeutic Keratectomy (PTK)

In keeping with its mandate to make available to all Jamaicans, as well as our Caribbean neighbours, the best and latest in vision care technology, the Caribbean LASIK Vision Centre has been performing a cutting edge corneal rehabilitation procedure using the EX500...
Corneal Cross-Linking (CXL)

Corneal Cross-Linking (CXL)

  What is Corneal Cross-Linking? Corneal cross-linking is a used in the treatment for an eye conditions such as keratoconus. (Keratoconus is a condition in which the front part of the eye, called the cornea, becomes progressively thin and weak resulting in cornea...

Dispelling the myths about cataracts

Cataract is the term used to define opacity or cloudiness of the normally clear, crystalline lens of the eye. In the eye, the lens changes thickness via ciliary muscle activity thereby focusing light on the fovea located in the retina. When the lens ceases to be...
Avoidable Blindness

Avoidable Blindness

Dispelling the Myth…… “Blindness runs in my family” It is common folklore that disabilities, debilities and chronic diseases run in families, blindness no less. So many Jamaicans see it as their eventual fate to suffer illnesses similar to those of older family...