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From routine eye exams to delicately complex surgeries, the Scott & White Eye Institute provides an impressively comprehensive range of eye care services. Teamwork has always been the cornerstone of our service, and the new Scott & White Eye Institute has been built around this teamwork. In addition to our specially trained doctors, members of our support staff are nationally certified in their specialties.
The Eye Institute is committed to your personalized eye care and takes advantage of every technological advance to improve the quality of your vision. Listed below are some of the services that we offer.
- Cataract Surgery
A cataract is simply a clouding of your natural lens. As different areas of the lens are affected, your vision becomes cloudy and colors begin to wash out. Sometimes severe glare occurs with and around lights, causing starbursts and halos. Our surgeons use state of the art technology to perform cataract surgery as a 10 – 15 minute outpatient procedure.
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- American Academy of Ophthalmology
- Contact Lens
- The Eye Institute offers customers selection and fitting of lenses, also training them how to insert and remove their lenses. For your convenience you can order contact lenses online or by phone for delivery directly to your home. Discover the latest advances in contact lenses. We provide a full range of gas permeable, soft and colored contact lenses dispensed directly from our office. We also offer specialty fitting of custom-made contact lenses for conditions such as keratoconus, surgical aphakia and corneal surface disease.
- Corneal Transplants
- The cornea, the clear tissue on the front of the eye, can become scarred or cloudy due to a variety of diseases or injuries. A corneal transplant is sometimes performed in order to replace a diseased cornea with a new healthy one. Our fellowship trained corneal specialist provides medical and surgical management of all corneal diseases.
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- Cornea Research Foundation of America
- American Academy or Ophthalmology
- Gifts from a stranger offer new hope for patients (pdf)
- (2003 Spring Quarterly)
- A golf game leaves Killeen man fighting to save his sight (pdf)
- (2003 Spring Quarterly)
- Diabetes and Age-Related Macular Degeneration
- Common causes of severe vision loss, diabetes and age-related macular degeneration often cause deterioration of the central retinal fibers. Our physicians can detect the early stages of the disease and possibly limit loss of vision.
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- National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Disease
- American Academy or Ophthalmology
- High-tech surgery helps a Central Texas woman see clearly again. (pdf)
- (2003 Spring Quarterly)
- Eyelid Surgery
- A variety of eyelid conditions are amenable to surgical correction, from injuries to congenital malformations to “droopy lids.” Our fellowship trained oculoplastic surgeon can perform these corrective procedures and reconstructive surgeries, if warranted.
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- The American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
- American Academy or Ophthalmology
- Glaucoma Treatment and Surgery
- Glaucoma, a disease of the optic nerve, is one of the leading causes of blindness in the United States. While symptoms from glaucoma can be managed with medical treatment, some forms of glaucoma only respond to surgical treatment. Our fellowship trained glaucoma specialist provides advanced laser and surgical treatment for this vision-threatening disease.
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- The Glaucoma Foundation
- American Academy or Ophthalmology
- LASIK/Refractive Surgery
- Visual independence is becoming a reality for millions of Americans. Laser vision correction is a rapid and precise method of reducing or eliminating the need for glasses and contacts. Our fellowship trained refractive surgeon performs procedures with the latest laser technology available. Althoug LASIK is the most popular refractive procedure, your surgeon at the Eye Institute will take the time to discuss all procedures and will decide which procedure is best for your eye.
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- International Society of Refractive Surgery of the American Academy of Ophthalmology
- American Academy or Ophthalmology
- LASIK and refractive surgery (pdf)
- (2003 Spring Quarterly)
- Low Vision Rehabilitation
- The Eye Institute trains and teaches patients how to most effectively use their remaining vision and provides them with many practical adaptations for the activities of daily living. Our low vision program features state of the art low vision devices. Low vision is defined as decreased visual function that impairs the activities of daily living, despite the best possible vision correction with glasses. Current technologies to help patients with impairments consist primarily of optical magnification devices, non-optical devices such as large-print books, large telephone dials, and auditory devices such as talking books and scanning devices. These items are available for purchase through the Eye Institute.
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- American Macular Degeneration Foundation
- American Academy or Ophthalmology
- Giving the gift of sight (pdf)
- (2003 Spring Quarterly)
- Neuro-Ophthalmology
- The eyes are literally extensions of the brain, and many disorders that affect the central nervous system can affect the visual system as well.
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- North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
- What happens when it’s more than just bad vision? (pdf)
- (2003 Spring Quarterly)
- Pediatric Ophthalmology
- The Eye Institute offers routine examinations for children, as well as evaluation for childhood eye diseases and medical and surgical treatment of strabismus (lazy eye).
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- American Academy or Ophthalmology
- Scott & White specialist focuses on children’s eyes (pdf)
- (2003 Spring Quarterly)
- Prosthetic Eyes
- The Scott & White Eye Institute offers prosthetic eyes prepared by an expertly trained ocularist. Skilled in the art and science of shaping, painting, fabricating and fitting ocular prosthetics, the ocularist creates prosthetics and then trains patients in proper handling and care of their new ocular devices. The ocularist remains committed to the long term care of patients, scheduling each patient for periodic examinations of the artificial eye. Patient care ranges from infants and children to the elderly.
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- More Than Meets the Eye
- (2003 Spring Quarterly)
- FAQs from www.ocularist.org
- Retinal Surgery
- Different types of retinal surgery may be performed depending opon the medical condition. Pneumatic retinopexy or a scleral buckle is used to treat certain kinds of retinal detachment, while a vitrectomy may be performed for more complicated diseases such as diabetic retinopathy.
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