Eye Doctors, 75093 Zip Code

If you live in or near the Plano area, you have access to an extraordinarily skilled group of eye doctors. 75093 residents can turn to Trinity Eye Care for thorough examination and effective treatment of virtually all eye diseases, disorders and unusual symptoms. Before you jump to the conclusion that you'll need to seek out an out-of-town specialist to examine your eyes, we strongly encourage you to make an appointment with our Plano optometrists.

While you're waiting for your appointment, you can learn more about what the symptoms you're experiencing could be indicative of by exploring our Education Central page. We have included a library of short computer animated film clips that clearly illustrate common symptoms, connect them with the diseases that can cause them and explain the available treatments. While these clips are no substitute for individual examination by our doctors, they can help to answer many of your questions.

Plano Optometrists Treating Keratoconus Differently

Some patients, often those between their early teens and mid twenties, may begin showing signs of the disease keratoconus. This disease causes the cornea to distort from its usual round shape into a cone shape, which in turn stretches the corneal layer too thin at the tip of the cone and forces light to disperse inside the eye.

For many years, Plano optometrists could only treat this disease with the use of hard, porous contact lenses that were often uncomfortable to wear and difficult to put in or remove. But today, a number of unique treatments are available, including surgical and non-surgical options. The latest hybrid contact lenses, which are as comfortable as any soft lenses, might be determined to be your best course of treatment by our eye doctors. 75093 area patients don't need to settle for inadequate treatments, however; if you have a case of keratoconus, we can help you with the most effective and safe contact lenses here in our Plano vision center.

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The word “Keratoconus” come from two greek words, “kerato”, which means cornea, “conus”, means cone shape.  Therefore, keratoconus means a cone shaped cornea.  Cornea is the outermost layer of the eye.  It is the first layer of the eye responsible for 30 percent of the total refractive power of our eyes.  Patients suffering from keratoconus, the cornea is not spherical like a baseball or basketball surface, but instead, it shapes like a cone.

The center portion of the cornea is very steep and extremely thin.  As a result, light scatters in the eye instead of forming a sharp focus.  Keratoconus typically commences at puberty and progresses to the mid thirties at which time progression slows and often stops. Between age 12 and 35 it can arrest or progress at any time and there is now way to predict how fast it will progress or if it will progress at all. In general, young patients with advanced keratoconus are more likely to progress to the point where they may ultimately require some form of surgical intervention.

Keratoconus may occur in one eye initially but most commonly affects both eyes with one eye being more severely affected than the other. Both males and females are equally affected and there is no ethnic predilection though in some parts of the world such as New Zealand and in certain parts of Finland there is a higher incidence due to genetic factors.

What is keratoconus?

In the past, patients suffering from keratoconus were corrected with special design hard lenses.  As the condition progress with time, they eventually underwent corneal transplant.  With the advancement of technology, we can now provide better option for keratoconus, such as scleral contact lenses and hybrid contact lenses (combining hard lens into a soft lens.).  There is also corneal implant available to those advance keratoconus patients who is not a candidate for contact lenses.  Check with us for the best solution for you and your lifestyle.