Brill Eye Center Names CooperVision 2022 Best Practices Honoree In recognition of current and future leaders in optometry, CooperVision announced Brill Eye Center as one of its 2022 Best Practices honorees and student scholarship recipients. The initiative—now in its seventh year—brings together innovative U.S. eye care practices committed to advancing the profession and providing … Continued
There are many reasons you might start looking into contact lenses. Maybe you’re tired of wearing glasses all day. Maybe you can’t wear glasses. Maybe you only need part-time corrective lenses for competing in sports or recreational activities. Maybe you’re color blind or have an astigmatism and aren’t sure if there are options that are … Continued
Keratoconus isn’t a widely known problem when it comes to eye care, but the issue is more common than you may think. A non-inflammatory condition of the cornea, Keratoconus occurs in the clear dome-shaped structure that covers the colored part of the eye called the iris. Read on below to learn more about this issue, … Continued
If you’ve been searching for a way to correct your vision without daytime contact lenses or glasses, Overnight Corneal Reshaping, also known as OCR or Ortho-K (meaning Orthokeratology) is the way to go! This FDA-approved method from Brill Eye Center painlessly reshapes your cornea while you sleep. Our precise process combined with advanced technology has … Continued
Intense Pulsed Light, or IPL, is relatively new in terms of dry eye treatment. It uses pulses of light energy to target fine blood vessels that makeup what we know as rosacea, specifically ocular rosacea. And not only can IPL treatment in Kansas City provide Dry Eye relief by reducing inflammation, but it can also … Continued
We hear it all the time from patients. They experience redness and itchiness in their eyes, so they go to urgent care or their primary care doc for treatment. The physician prescribes eye drops that provide temporary relief, but they find the drops don’t fix their issues for very long. So they go back and … Continued
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in the winter of 2020, Dry Eye was a remarkably common issue. Even in normal times, 30 percent of all people were suffering from Dry Eye, or what we call Ocular Surface Disease. And as many of us have transitioned to a virtual lifestyle, more people … Continued
Dry Eye and Dry Eye symptoms are remarkably common issues. Around 30 percent of all people suffer from Ocular Surface Disease, AKA Dry Eye. And as many of us have transitioned to a virtual lifestyle, things have only gotten worse. Considered the premier Dry Eye specialist in Kansas City and well-regarded by peers across the … Continued
One of the biggest risk factors for Dry Eye is screen usage. With millions of adults and students now working and schooling from home, more of us are spending all day on computers and in Zoom meetings. Because of that risk, there’s never been a better time to schedule a dry eye evaluation with Brill … Continued
Before defining what keratoconus is, we need to describe how light travels through the eye. The first surface that light hits is the tear film. A clean and healthy tear film allows light to next travel through the cornea, which is a clear, dome-shaped structure that covers the colored part of the eye. The normal … Continued
