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Information About Vision Services

We provide a broad range of vision services that are tailored to meet your needs. At Ophthalmology Associates of the Valley in Encino and West Hills, our ophthalmologists perform routine eye exams and fittings for contacts and glasses. Also, we can diagnose, treat, and manage patients who suffer from eye infections, dry eye syndrome, or common eye allergies. For more advanced procedures, our expert doctors specialize in complex and intricate eye surgeries, including laser cataract surgery, glaucoma surgery, LASIK, and vitrectomy.

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A cataract happens when the lens within the eye starts to fog and is typically caused by age, which impacts a patient’s eyesight and requires surgery.

For patients undergoing cataract surgery, IOLs or intraocular lenses offer a variety of benefits to those in need of an artificial lens replacement.

Laser cataract surgery is a common treatment that helps millions of older Americans who have vision-related problems because of a cataract.

While traditional cataract surgery is still commonly used today, we encourage you to learn about our other excellent treatment options for cataracts.

IOL is an artificial lens that is implanted in the eye during routine cataract surgery or refractive lens exchange to replace the natural cloudy lens.

Many corneal conditions and disorders occur in patients who have a genetic predisposition, including keratoconus, which requires advanced treatment.

Recovery Time
1 year

Corneal transplant is an innovative, effective surgical treatment that uses healthy donor tissue to restore a damaged cornea or the epithelial layer.

Recovery Time
4 days

Corneal cross-linking (CXL) is an advanced procedure that uses riboflavin and ultraviolet light to help reduce corneal thinning caused by ectasia.

Rigid gas-permeable contact lenses can help reshape the cornea to reduce symptoms caused by myopia, astigmatism, or a condition called keratoconus.

Addressing keratoconus-related vision problems and symptoms, Intacs are tiny, clear implants that we place near the cornea to improve its structure.

Keratoconus is a progressive corneal disorder that affects the structure and shape of the cornea, impacting the vision and causing refractive errors.

Penetrating keratoplasty (PKP) is a corneal transplant that removes the damaged part of the cornea and replaces it with healthy donor tissue.

Amblyopia (lazy eye) happens when poor eyesight causes the eye to wander inward or outward and prevents both of the eyes from working together.

Astigmatism happens when the cornea or lens is shaped like an egg instead of completely round, causing light to refract incorrectly off the retina.

Ranging from mild to severe and caused by bacteria or a virus, eye infections create uncomfortable symptoms that may require professional treatment.

Diplopia or double vision happens when a patient sees multiple images or things at once and is caused by a variety of eye or neurological conditions.

Caused by your eyes not producing enough tears or oil, chronic dry eye syndrome creates burning and red eyes, which may need specialized treatment.

Usually caused by common allergens, such as pollen or dust, eye allergies create mild to severe symptoms, including watery, itchy, or inflamed eyes.

An eye exam assesses your entire eye health, detects any conditions, such as glaucoma or macular edema, and determines if you have any vision changes.

Farsightedness is an eye condition that impacts patients' ability to clearly see things up close and is treated with glasses, contacts, or surgery.

Caused by genetics or environmental reasons, myopia prevents patients from seeing things in the distance clearly and requires corrective treatments.

Presbyopia is an age-related vision issue that causes patients to lose their ability to clearly see things up close and requires corrective treatment.

Glaucoma is a group of optical conditions that create increased pressure on the optic nerve, which impacts a patient’s vision and may cause blindness.

If your glaucoma is becoming worse or more conservative options, such as MIGS, no longer work, we may perform a trabeculectomy or an Ahmed tube shunt.

Our ophthalmologists use innovative laser techniques to help decrease intraocular pressure, which may cause permanent vision loss or even blindness.

With a variety of innovative procedures to choose from, your minimally invasive glaucoma surgery is personalized to help you manage your symptoms.

Recovery Time
1 - 2 days

During your Visian implantable collamer lens (ICLs) treatment, we place the implant behind the cornea or the iris to help decease refractive errors.

Utilizing innovative laser technology to revise the shape of your cornea, LASIK is one of the most popular and well-known vision correction surgeries.

Photorefractive keratectomy, also known as PRK, is one of the very first advanced laser vision correction procedures that is still performed today.

Refractive lens exchange (RLE) is a surgery that helps with presbyopia by extracting the eye’s original lens and exchanging it with an artificial one.

Using advanced laser vision correction techniques, refractive eye surgery helps resolve vision errors, such as myopia, by reshaping the cornea.

If you have excess skin on your upper eyelid or bulging skin beneath your eye, blepharoplasty improves your ability to see and enhances your look.

BOTOX is an injectable wrinkle relaxer that's made from a purified type A botulinum toxin, which reduces wrinkles and fine lines around the eyes.

Entropion and ectropion eyelid reconstruction is a surgery that improves the appearance and shape of eyelids that curve too far inward or outward.

Styes and chalazions are common eyelid conditions that usually heal with at-home methods; however, sometimes they require draining or excision.

To reduce a sagging eyelid caused by weakened or stretched tissue, ptosis repair helps tighten the levator muscle, using delicate surgical techniques.

To help you see clearer, we offer comprehensive eye exams, contact lenses, and eyeglass fittings all in one location and for any budget or need.

To help improve central vision for patients with end-stage, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), we perform CentraSight Telescope implant surgery.

As one of the main reasons for blindness in adult men and women with Type 1 or 2 diabetes, diabetic retinopathy affects the veins within the retina.

Caused by congealed vitreous fluid, flashes and floaters appear as bright lightning flashes or tiny black squiggles that drift across the eye.

Wet and dry macular degeneration is a serious and progressive eye disease that impacts the macula, which requires treatment to prevent vision loss.

Macular holes and macular puckers cause blurry and distorted vision and may require advanced eye surgery to help reduce these uncomfortable symptoms.

Anti-VEGF retinal injections help improve retinal conditions, such as wet macular degeneration, by temporarily reducing the growth of irregular veins.

As a natural occurrence when we age, retinal tears and detachments happen when the vitreous fluid in between the lens and retina starts to decrease.

Scleral buckle surgery helps repair a torn or detached retina by attaching a semi-hard plastic buckle to the scleral, which prevents further damage.

A vitrectomy is a delicate eye surgery that involves the extraction of vitreous fluid to give ophthalmologists better access to any retinal damage.

*Individual results are not guaranteed and may vary from person to person. Images may contain models.