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9th Anniversary Event 17th December 2023

Itinenary on the day: 12 pm: Talk: The Sun, UV Light and Your Eyes 12 pm - 3 pm: Tutu Kueh Live Station 1.30 pm - 3 pm: Kids Art & Craft Workshop: Tote Bag Painting(Limited slots available, must RSVP if keen, first come first served) 3 pm: Talk & Workshop for...

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What is a Stye (Hordeolum)?

Do you frequently get a Stye (Hordeolum) on your eyelids? A stye (hordeolum) is a localized infection in the eyelid that causes a tender, red bump near the edge of the lid. It is filled with pus and inflammatory cells produced when a clogged gland or follicle becomes...

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Vision Screening VS Comprehensive Eye Examination

What are the difference between a vision screening and a comprehensive eye examination? Vision screening is usually a basic test that helps to identify the visual problem. It mainly consist of a vision acuity test which uses different lenses to determine if your...

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Anti-fatigue lenses

Feeling eye strains easily at work or school? Having difficulties focusing at your phone or digital screens? Living in a digital world, we tend to be reading closer and for longer period of time than before. Think of your eyes seeing at near in the same way you think...

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Obesity in Singapore among school-age children

Are Singaporean children obesity levels on the rise? Have you wondered children obesity in Singapore will push up the rate of diabetes in Singapore? According to the news reported in 2016, 34 per cent of Singaporean aged 24 to 35 would become diabetic when they...

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Wear contact lens at young age.

Age is just a number to wear contact lenses. What is the right age for children to wear contact lenses? Children are naturally good candidates to wear contact lenses as that they are highly motivated. School performance and physical activity may improve with contact...

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Cost of myopia? Cost is not just financial.

Cost of myopia? Guess what is the estimated total cost of optical correction of myopia in Singapore? According to WHO report in 2016, the annual direct cost for Singaporean is estimated at US$755 million. The cost of eye care will likely to increase if Singaporean...

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Hard contact lenses safe for children?

Are hard contact lenses safe for children? Yes, if they are gas permeable ones. The hard lenses are now obsolete since the introduction of rigid gas permeable contact lenses (RGP) in late 1970s. RGP contact lenses are not the same as the hard, commonly used in one of...

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Sleep deprivation among Singaporean children.

Mummy, can I sleep more hours? Sleep deprivation among Singaporean children Guess how many hours of sleep do Singaporean children have nightly? According to 2015 study conducted in one of the universities in Singapore, 4 out of 10 children between 6 and 9 years of age...

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Harmful blue light. Bad for children.

Harmful blue light. Bad for children. Oh Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun. Please shine down on me, but not the harmful blue light. Familiar with Mr. Sun nursery song? Children are fascinated by “Mr. Sun” whenever they are exposed to outdoors. Children need to be educated...

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Explore green space with children.

More Green. Less Myopia.Explore green space with your children.Want to boost your child’s memory and be more attentive? Researchers have found a correlation between green space and mental health of an individual. One of studies in Spain reviewed the impact of green...

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School in the green to reduce children’s stress.

Teaching in the forest? School in the green to reduce children’s stress. School holidays in #Singapore have just ended. Most of the parents might feel a “relief” to leave their children for indoor teaching after #schoolholidays. Some children might not feel the same...

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Health of your eyes? See an optometrist first.

Aunty, are you a doctor? Check health of your eyes? See an optometrist first. Health screening is designed to evaluate the health status of an individual. It may include taking a personal and family health history, and performing a physical examination, laboratory...

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Relax eyes? Sweat it out children!

Sweat it out #children to relax eyes. Have you ever advised by your #optometrist to look out of the window at the patch of grass to relax your eyes?  Only spending outdoors can relax eyes. 2015’s World Health Organisation (WHO) scientific meeting reported only...

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Stressful children at younger ages.

Stressful children at younger ages. #relaxbro, think before you say something to a young child. Children are exposing to stress at much younger ages due to release of stress chemicals when they pick up in their stressful mothers’ wombs. Adults need to understand the...

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Ortho-K boosts self-motivation in your child.

#OrthoK boosts #selfmotivation in your #child. Do you find it hard to get your child to get out of bed in the morning? The ability of learning depends on self-motivation after the age of 7yo. Interestingly, one of the #myopia control options, Ortho-K benefits...

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Kids-at-heart optometrist work well with kids.

Always be #kidatheart #optometrist!Optometrist plays important role on #children #myopia control. Besides supporting clinical facts, Kid-at-heart personality is essential to achieve great rapport with children.1. Smile like a #childBe true and happy when working with...

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Post Refractive Surgery

Post Refractive Surgery When do I need Post- Refractive Surgery Contact Lenses? Refractive surgery procedures reshape cornea permanently. Sometimes, this can cause irregularities in the shape of the cornea that causes visual distortion. The irregularities sometimes...

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Glaucoma

What is Glaucoma? Glaucoma, also known as “Silent thief of sight”, that results an increase in intra ocular pressure that causes a permanent vision loss. Our healthy eyes maintain unblocked watery fluid that flows between cornea and lens. Once fluid is blocked,...

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Specialty Contact Lenses

Specialty Contact Lenses Any of the following conditions can make contact lens fitting and comfortable contact lens wear more challenging: Keratoconus Astigmatism Dry eyes Giant papillary conjunctivitis (GPC) Post-refractive surgery (eg. LASIK) Presbyopia Specialty...

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Children Myopia Control

What Is Myopia Control?   Myopia control is a treatment option to slow down the progression of myopia (shortsightedness). Childhood myopia is a progressive visual disorder that results the child to have poor distance vision. If the child’s myopia is severe, it...

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Optometrist – Their role in eye care

Optometrists - Their role and what it takes to be one in Singapore An optometrist in Singapore is licensed to prescribe eye glasses and contact lenses, detecting any eye care related problems, like glaucoma. An optometrist generally must complete 3 year Diploma...

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Visual Distortion

What is Visual Distortion? Visual distortion is corneal thinning condition that results to keratoconus, astigmatism, and myopia. Visual distortion might deteriorate vision and inhibit the ability to read or drive. What is the test to determine visual distortion?...

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Visual Acuity

What is Visual Acuity Visual acuity test is used to determine whether you can read the smallest letters or images on the standardised chart ( Snellen ) held 6 meters. Why is it important to test visual acuity? Visual acuity test is an important part of an eye care...

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What is a Tonometry Test?

What is tonometry?  Why a tonometry test  is important to eye care? The health of our vision changes as we age. Once we reach 40, it is not uncommon for eye problems to arise. Presbyopia, or age- related long-sightedness, is common even for people with prior perfect...

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Rigid Gas Permeable (RGP)

Rigid Gas Permeable (RGP) Contact Lens for Myopia Control and Orthokeratology ( Ortho-K ) History of Rigid Gas Permeable (RGP) contact lenses Rigid gas permeable (RGP) contact lenses were first introduced in the late 1970s, actually a newer technology than soft...

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Multifocal Eye Glasses

Multifocal Eye Glasses- what are they and do I need them. Multifocal eye glasses and contact lenses are mainly used for presbyopia, a condition that inhibit us to focus near tasks as we age. Your optometrist will give a proper diagnosis and best treatment option if...

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Eye Glasses

Why do we call prescription lenses as "eye glasses"? How eye glasses were invented? Reading stones acted like eye glasses were discovered around 1000 A.D. They were developed to help monks with presbyopia in reading and writing, by using convex shaped glass that...

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Maintaining Good Vision

Maintaining Good Vision The health of our vision changes as we age. Once we reach 40, it is not uncommon for eye problems to arise. Presbyopia, or age-related long-sightedness, is common even for people with prior perfect eyesight. Age may cause you to perceive as...

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What is Ortho-K?

Ortho-K in short for Orthokeratology, is the fitting of specially designed rigid gas permeable contact lenses that can be safely worn overnight. Why children are great candidates for Ortho-K? Ortho-K is suitable for children as a myopia control option, and reversible....

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What is Keratoconus

keratoconus Keratoconus is an eye disease that causes progressive change of a normal cornea to bulge outward like a cone. Keratoconus begins in teens and early adulthood, either in one eye or both. What are the signs and symptoms of keratoconus? As the cornea gets...

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What is Corneal Topographer?

Corneal Topographer Corneal topographer is a computerised eye care diagnostic tool that creates a three dimensional map of the surface curvature of the cornea. The cornea is responsible for about 70 percent of the focusing power of the eye. An eye with normal vision...

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Astigmatism

Have I got “stigmatism” or “astigmatism”?! Don’t worry. Your eyes are not condemned. Your optometrist might have mispronounced your eye condition, called ASTIGMATISM. Astigmatism is a refractive error like myopia ( shortsightedness ) and hyperopia ( longsightedness )....

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Eye Care

Eye Care What is a comprehensive eye care examination? A comprehensive eye care examination is performed by an optometrist, part of the important of eye care examination is to detect eye diseases like glaucoma, cataract, macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy....

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SDA-BUSINESS LUMINARY AWARD 2016

EDITORIAL REPORT: MS. KAY CHUA, EDITOR SDA-BUSINESS LUMINARY AWARD 2016 COMPANY: FIRST EYEWEAR CENTRE PTE LTD NAME OF RECIPIENT: MS. CAREEN LOW ESTABLISHED FOR ALREADY HALF A CENTURY, FIRST EYEWEAR CENTRE PTE LTD HAS GONE FULL FLEDGED TO BECOME AN EYEWEAR SPECIALIST...

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Myopia Control Treatment

What is best #myopia control option for #children? Do you know overseas eye care professionals prefer #OrthoK for myopia control?   Clinical researchers from Vision Research Institute at Ferris State University's Michigan College of Optometry conducted a survey...

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Eye growth changes in myopic children in Singapore

What is axial length of the eye? Why myopic children need to examine axial length of eye regularly? 543 myopic children aged 7–9 years from three Singapore schools were recruited to participate in the SCORM (Singapore Cohort study Of the Risk factors for Myopia) study...

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New Cases of Myopia in Children

Is your child myopic? New cases of childhood myopia from age 7 years.     #Myopia commonly occurs in #children during their early school years and increases in magnitude as they get older. Collaborative Longitudinal Evaluation of Ethnicity and Refractive...

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Myopia boom and Intervention

Myopia boom and intervention. Understand the risk factors of high myopia before myopia boom.   In 2010, it was estimated 1.9 billion people worldwide were affected by myopia. The number might increase to 2.5 billion people by 2020. Every dioptre increase in...

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Inconvenient truth about myopia

Inconvenient truth about myopia. Can #eyeglasses, #contactlenses and #lasik help to resolve myopia? The inconvenient truth about myopia is it can be corrected by eye glasses, contact lenses and Lasik surgery but NOT the underlying cause: the elongation of the eyeball...

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Why are children good candidates?

Can children handle #OrthoK #contactlenses? Why is my child a #goodcandidate for Ortho-K?   Studies from around the world have indicated that Ortho-K can keep your children's #myopia from getting worse. Currently, an ongoing 5 year FDA study is seeking to confirm...

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