130 Almshouse Road, Suite 202B, Richboro, PA 18954
Telephone: (215) 364-8822 Fax: (215) 357-7781
Richboro Eye Care offers a variety of services, from "preventative care visits" to surgical procedures. Please call our office to see if we can help you with your eye care needs.
For more information on contact lenses and contact lens care, please visit our Patient Education page.
As an Ophthalmologist certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology, I have received extensive training in the early recognition, diagnosis and management of virtually all forms of glaucoma. When I diagnose a patient with glaucoma, I prescribe medications to keep the eye pressure at a low enough level so that no further damage occurs to the visual system. Visual field testing is performed as often as needed to look for stability, and office exams are usually done four times per year.
Laser treatment for COAG is extremely effective in selected patients, and, in my experience can decrease or eliminate the need for medication to maintain a controlled eye pressure. There is at least an 85% chance that this procedure, called laser trabeculoplasty, will maintain a controlled eye pressure for three years. A that time another laser procedure can be performed giving a 50% chance of control, and after another three years a 30% chance that another procedure will keep the pressure under control. Laser trabeculoplasty for many Ophthalmologists is a first line treatment for certain types of glaucoma patients because this procedure has an excellent chance of eliminating the need for medication.
If medications and/or laser trabeculoplasty have failed to maintain an adequately low eye pressure, then traditional surgery will be required to lower the eye pressure. This procedure, called trabeculectomy, in my hands is extremely successful in lowering the eye pressure and can be combined with cataract surgery if required.
For more information about Glaucoma as a condition, please visit our Patient Education page.
I take cataract surgery very seriously. I will never operate on a patient unless I feel that it is warranted. I am a conservative surgeon and will treat each patient as if he or she were a member of my family. After all, you only have two eyes. During your examination for cataract surgery, you will notice one very important thing...there are no technicians! I personally do your entire examination, including the crucial measurement of your eye for lens implantation. This insures that at each step of your examination I am completely aware of your special surgical needs. I am well known to take my time explaining to you in detail exactly the nature of your condition so as "as a team" we can get the best possible surgical results.
Cataract surgery is the most successful of all elective major surgeries, with nearly 99% of surgery having no complications. Complications, whether mild and self-limited, or severe and vision threatening, occur 1% of the time, with the worst occurring in fractions of a percentage (more detailed discussions occur when I actually sit down face-to-face with each and every patient I operate on).
Most patients are on drops for 2 to 4 weeks and can receive a final prescription of eyeglasses, if needed, between 6 to 12 weeks after surgery. If the second eye also requires cataract removal this can be done several weeks after the first eye.
For more information about Cataracts and Cataract Surgery, please visit our Patient Education page.
For more information about LASIK and other refractive surgeries, please visit our Patient Education page.