In time for World Glaucoma Awareness Week, West Georgia Eye Care Center is excited to announce a new weapon in the fight against glaucoma! Our ophthalmologists are pleased to be able to offer DURYSTA™, the only FDA approved sustained-release implant for the treatment of elevated eye pressures for appropriate patients. WGECC has been diagnosing and… Read More
Smooth as a baby’s bottom…. We’ve all heard the saying above, and intuitively know that baby’s skin is smooth and perfect! Babies also have another surface that is smooth and perfect – the tear film on the front of the eye. Don’t believe us?!! Just try a staring contest with your 2 – 3 year… Read More
Valentine’s Day is near and it is a special reminder of what West Georgia Eye Care Center commits to every day… To Love Our Patients! If you have been to one of our three locations, we certainly hope that you have experienced that love. It has been our commitment since our founding 70 years ago… Read More
West Georgia Eye Care Center has a long history of supporting the communities we love to serve by partnering with the United Way of the Chattahoochee Valley. We know that we are stronger together; and we are grateful for the opportunity to do more as partners than we could ever achieve alone. We recently received… Read More
‘Twas the day before Christmas, Christmas Eve, 2020, Our doctors were busy, Providing Eye Care, and plenty! This year had been different, From any they’d known, But eye care is essential, So, they couldn’t stay home. The doctors worked on Giving excellent care, With no time to consider, That Santa soon would be… Read More
At the bottom of a Silver Springs canal in Florida, in the pocket of an international airline seat, or on a café table in Paris… these are real places where patients have left their glasses! In the whitewater, in the surf at a beach, or on a ski lift… these are real places where patients… Read More
This year, traditional Thanksgiving gatherings and travels “Over the River and Through the Wood” may be curtailed due to the pandemic. Visits “to Grandfather’s house*” may be virtual this year. Conditions now exist that Lydia Maria Child (the author of the famous lyrics) could not have imagined during her life at the turn of the 19th century. Originally a… Read More
Columbus, Georgia and the surrounding areas awoke to colder weather and the first frost of the season this past week. As fires are made in fireplaces and heaters are turned on, homes become warmer and cozier; but an unwelcome condition may present itself as well. Many people suffering from dry eye have an increase in… Read More
When choosing a Halloween Costume make sure the scary features are just pretend. Make-believe can quickly turn into a truly scary situation if you choose the wrong contact lenses to add to your costume. Non-prescription enhancing contacts are increasing in availability and so are emergency visits to the ophthalmologist for problems related to them. Possible… Read More
“Keys” are a number one answer on Family Feud for things that are easy to lose. Everyone probably has a lost key story; and how the story ends probably depends on where they were lost. Like the proverbial needle in a haystack, lost items are difficult to find if they are unable to be easily… Read More