130 Almshouse Road, Suite 202B, Richboro, PA 18954
Phone:(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.
There is really no such thing as a "routine exam" to a physician. Each comprehensive medical exam of your eyes that I do is done to detect and prevent potentially blinding eye disease. There is nothing "routine" about that. Unlike "chain store eye doctors", as an Ophthalomologist I dilate your pupils to exam the entire inside of your eyes. Examining eyes WITHOUT dilation is like looking into a room through a "key hole" rather than opening the door and taking a long look inside.
If you need an eye glass prescription for the first time, or a "fine tuning" to your correct prescription, I can give you an eye glass prescription that you can take to any Optician you want. We do not make glasses in my office. This way you really know that you needed this prescription.
If you are interested in wearing soft contacts lenses, for the treatment of virtually all refractive issues, I can do this for you. I am one of the only Ophthalmologists who still fits contact lenses. 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.
Optical Coherence Tomography, a sophisticated microscopic scanning of the optical nerve, and Visual field testing, done to check for shrinking of the peripheral vision associated with glaucoma, are performed as often as needed to look for stability to this disease. Office exams are typically done four or more times per year.
Laser treatment for "Open Angle Glaucoma" 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 many years. Laser trabeculoplasty for many Ophthalmologists is a first line treatment for certain types of glaucoma patients because this procedure has an excellent chance of decreasing or eliminating the need for topical medication.
If medications and/or laser trabeculoplasty have failed to maintain an adequately low eye pressure, then one of many glaucoma surgical procedures can be performed to get the ey pressure lower.
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). Since I started my practice in March 1990, I have had only nine major complications giving me a complication of rate of nearly zero percent!
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 one to two 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.