Category Archives: Eye Care

Pediatric Ophthalmology

The Paediatric ophthalmology services offered at Ahuja Eye Centre and Dental Clinic are for all patients below 18 years of age. Services offered under this speciality include…

  • Refractive errors correction
  • Children below the age of 7 years require three visits in total & above 7 years till 16 require two visits. Detection of refractive error in children is itself a big challenge

  • Amblyopic Management
  • To ensure that a child is given the best possible chance to develop normal vision, patching a technique for treating amblyopia may be continued for a few months even after vision stabilizes. Close monitoring is necessary throughout childhood.

  • Squint Correction through lenses or surgery according to the case
  • Congenital Cataract
  • Congenital Dacryocystitis
  • Paediatric retina surgeries
  • Paediatric glaucoma surgeries

Orbit & Oculoplasty

Oculoplasty is carried out to handle a large number of eye ailments involving the eye, eye socket, eye lid, tear secretion and drainage system as well as the face. It also concerns with plastic surgery and aesthetics involving the eye and facial areas surrounding the eyes.

Services offered under this speciality include…

(i) Trauma management – like eye lid tear repair, globe rupture repair
(ii) Ptosis (drooping of eye lid) management
(iii) Treatment of eye cancers like retinoblastoma
(iv) Thyroid eye disease management
(v) DCR surgery, canalicular repair to treat watering eye
(vi) Botox injections to treat skin wrinkles, lid spasms
(vii) Entropion and Ectropion (inward and outward turning of eye lid) correction
(viii) Evisceration/enucleation and implantation – specialized surgery where the diseased eye is extracted and an artificial ball is placed in the socket to enhance the convenience level and the appearance of eyes.

Refractive Surgery

At Ahuja Eye Centre and Dental Clinic, there are various surgical options offered to people who want to get rid of spectacles forever. Among the most commonly carried out surgical procedures, LASIK is the most effective and most complications free procedure.

For patients who are not fit for lasik other options of glasses removal such as ICL(implantable Contact Lens) is also available

Glaucoma

Glaucoma is a type of disease that causes weakening and damaging of eye’s optic nerve, and with increase in pressure inside the eye, it can also result in loss of vision and ultimately blindness. Since the function of the optic nerve is to relay the images seen to the brain, its ability to convey that important piece of information is seriously hampered when it gets damaged, and the brain is no longer able to interpret the imagery seen by the person’s eye.

The worst thing about this ailment is that it does not show any signs in its early stages, and the symptoms only occur when the damage to the optic nerve crosses an alarming 70%. In cases where eye pressure is not controlled with medication or is at an advanced level, such cases have to undergo a surgery called “trabeculectomy” to enhance fluid drainage and preserve the eye pressure at a standard level. If the trabeculectomy surgery fails to manage the eye pressure, other procedures like “glaucoma drainage device implantation”, “cyclocryotherapy”; may be required to address the ailment.

Vitreoretina Services

Vitreoretina department handles all the diseases of the posterior segment of the eye like diabetic retinopathy, retinal detachment, age related macular degeneration, infections, trauma, etc.

At Ahuja Eye Center and Dental Clinic, we have a well established retina set up including services of trained retina specialists, latest investigative modalities like OCT, FFA, B scan and vitrectomy platform for advanced vitreoretinal surgeries.

Cataract

Cataract is a natural part of the eye’s aging process and is the primary reason of treatable blindness in our country. At Ahuja Eye Centre and Dental Clinic, we offer surgery for cataract extraction and intraocular lens implantation in a very simple and safe surgical procedure. Fully equipped with state-of-the-art operation theatres, these surgeries are undertaken in the safest possible way under the watchful eyes of experienced eye surgeons in this field. The procedure has a 98% success rate.

Our experienced and highly skilled surgeons are doing cataract surgeries under Topical Anaesthesia (no injection). There is very little discomfort or inconvenience and patients can usually return home few hours after surgery, as it is a day care procedure. We are implanting the latest available intraocular lenses such as multifocal toric and even trifocal toric with excellent results to provide our patients good unaided vision.

After surgery a bandage will be placed over your eye. You will be advised to rest till you are ready to leave. You should wear protective glasses to avoid accidental injury. The doctor will advise you when to discontinue them. You can bathe carefully from below your neck but do not wet the operated eye for 7 days. You may gently clean the eyelids with a piece of cotton boiled in water or a sterillized tissue.

Contact Lens

At Ahuja Eye Centre and Dental Clinic, we offer a complete range of contact lenses right from the basic spherical shaped ones to toric soft contact lenses to rigid gas permeable contact lenses to hybrid lenses and prosthetic contact lenses as well. The advantage of using contact lenses is that they can be useful in treating a variety of vision related problems where spectacles are unable to offer adequate vision. Conditions like post corneal trauma scars, post corneal transplant, Keratoconus, irregular corneas and corneal scars, dry eyes, etc.

There are various types of contact lenses offered at Ahuja Eye Centre and Dental Clinic, such as…

  • Soft contact lenses (spherical and toric) to rectify common refractive issues
  • Rigid Gas permeable (RGP) lenses to rectify high refractive errors, irregular corneas and corneal scars
  • Rose K lenses, which are specialized RGP lenses used to deal with keratoconus & post corneal transplant eyes
  • Mini sclerals/ Scleral Rose K, which are bifocal lenses for close and far vision
  • Prosthetic lenses which are also called Cosmetic contact lenses
  • Extended wear contact lenses –