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Cataract surgery is already the most successful surgery worldwide with a success rate of a mind-blowing 99 percent. That’s a great statistic since just about everyone gets cataracts — by the age of 65 over 90 percent of people have a cataract. This means the lens of their eye with the cataract is building proteins...  read more

People have heard of most eye conditions, such as macular degeneration or glaucoma. But if you really want to stump people at a party ask them what “keratoconus” is. You’ll hear the sound of crickets. Keratoconus is a progressive eye disease where the person’s normally round cornea thins and then begins to bulge into a...  read more

If you have young children, it seems you’re always worrying about something. When do I need to get immunizations? Are they developing appropriately to their age? What’s up with those friends? It’s a veritable worryfest at times. Eye care is kind of a fuzzy area. If it seems your child sees just fine, many parents...  read more

Most people have heard of amblyopia, just not by that clinical name. You’ve probably heard it called “lazy eye.” This occurs when the vision in one of a child’s eyes doesn’t develop normally. It is caused when visual information is transmitted poorly or incorrectly between the optic nerve and the brain. If left untreated, amblyopia...  read more

People worry more about keeping up with the arbitrary 3,000-mile oil change schedule of their car than they do about regular eye exams. But it’s during these routine eye exams where larger problems, such as glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, and other serious vision problems, are spotted. That’s crucial because many conditions such as glaucoma...  read more

If you’re old enough, you may remember a lame song in the 70s by Foreigner titled Double Vision. While that song was and is easily forgettable, if you actually have symptoms of double vision, we need to see you at Millennium Park as this condition can point to some serious health issues. What is double...  read more

The central portion of your retina is known as the macula. Most people are familiar with one very serious condition that can rob the person of their central vision, macular degeneration. But a less well-known condition comes when a person develops a hole in their macula. At Millennium Park Eye Center, our ophthalmologists perform surgery...  read more

OK, you just had your regular eye exam and now you have a prescription for eyeglasses. But what the heck do the numbers on that prescription mean? Since we’re all about your eyes at Millennium Park, in this last blog before an awesome Chicago summer (especially compared to last year’s!), let’s decipher that eyeglass prescription....  read more