Experienced eye surgeon curing your eyes

Total Eyecare Center is managed by Dr Gerard Chuah who is a/an consultant eye surgeon cum retinal specialist. A alumna from National University of Singapore in 1988, he then determined to advance his scholarship over at the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FRCS Edinburgh) in 1993. The year later, he attained is Master of Medicine in Ophthalmology from the Postgraduate School of Medicine that is managed by National University of Singapore. He later achieved his Advanced Specialty Training Certification in the year 1997.

Having achieved much experience in this segment with much understanding in carrying out eye surgery such as cataract surgery as well as healing diabetic eye diseases for patients, he takes on a delectable impression in the eyes of many. A retinal detachment is a vital disease as it may lead to blindness. This occurs when liquefied vitreous enters through retinal tears and detached the retina, so, causing a retinal detachment which builds the photoreceptor cells of the retina vital for sight and loses blood supply and causing it to die off eventually.

Some patients have remarked that they have been seeing floaters and flash lights and wonder if this is one of the symptom of a retinal tear. Floaters are actually shadows of opacities in the vitreous cavity hurl onto and collected by the retina. These kind of floaters have been identifed by patients in all forms and shape and is more effortlessly viewed in subjects of bright illumination, especially against a full light coloured environment.

One way to heal retinal tears is by undergoing laser eye surgery which would often bears about 15-20 minutes or eye surgeries like linoff's balloon, pneumatic retinopexy, scleral buckling surgery which is up to the patient's selection. Some other well-known eye healing that Total Eyecare center has are cataract operation as well as services for diabetic retinopathy and age related macular degeneration.

Come to our website for more information: Eye Surgery, Floaters , Laser Eye Surgery.