Dr. David Langford, O.D. is the optometrist inside the North Logan, Utah Wal*Mart Vision Center. This website contains information related to your eye health and eyecare products like contacts lenses, frames, and lenses. My goal is to become the trusted eyecare provider of choice for those seeking the best value.
Posted in General on Jan 26th, 2010
Myopia control has recently been in the news, and now even ophthalmology studies confirm that bifocals can slow down myopia progression. Eye Doc News reports that:
A good study in Archives demonstrates that executive bifocals (+1.50) do retard myopia in fast-progressing myopes among children. After 2 years, axial length was .62 and myopia about -.50 [...]
Posted in General on Jan 2nd, 2010
I hope you all had a very happy new year. As I mentioned before, this year my fees had to rise since my costs are going up. I now have to bill more insurances, which requires more time and money.
To offset your increased cost, I’ve changed one fee policy. From now on [...]
Posted in General on Dec 18th, 2009
Myopia (nearsightedness) has been in the news lately thanks to a new study showing that it has increased in our society from 1971 compared to 2004.
Another doctor wrote an excellent piece about what this could mean for you or your kids, so instead of me writing something similar, just click to read what Dr. Nathan [...]
Posted in General on Dec 6th, 2009
FYI, due to a variety of reasons, my exam fee will increase by $5 effective January 1, 2010. What that means for you is, why not give yourself or a family member the gift of an eye exam during December? Get it while it’s still the same price it has been at since [...]
Posted in General on Dec 6th, 2009
It is important while swimming in a pool or relaxing in a hot tub that you remove your contacts. It doesn’t matter to me if you are in extended wear, daily wear, or daily disposable.
Take out the contacts in the pool or hot tub because you don’t want to get this:
Also, replace your contact [...]
Posted in General on Nov 22nd, 2009
With all the hope and change in our economy lately, I’ve actually seen an increase in eye infections. Apparently, when money is short, people wear their contact lenses longer than they are supposed to. Typically, a contact lens is either manufactured to be a 2 week or a 4 week disposable lens. [...]
Posted in General on Aug 16th, 2009
Your North Logan Walmart Vision Center has already started their Back-to-School specials. Kids lenses start at just $29. A well worth it upgrade to anti-reflective (no-glare) lenses is just $48. Select frames start at just $9, and don’t forget they have a huge selection that your student son or daughter is sure [...]
Posted in General on Mar 2nd, 2009
When thinking about the kind of contacts you want, there is a whole lot more to think about than simply price. Most standard contacts are taken out every night. If you don’t, then eye health problems like infection, inflammation, and new blood vessel growth on the cornea are more likely to occur.
But realize [...]
Family Health Radio is a brief radio procuction broadcast on over 300 stations. It is produced by Dr. Harold C. Thompson at the College of Osteopathic Medicine and The WOUB Center For Public Media at Ohio University. Since Dr. Thompson is a medical doctor, the topics are typically whole-body-health related; however, he often [...]
Posted in General on Jul 30th, 2008
We have been telling patients at risk for Macular Degeneration to take megadoses of certain vitamins, but it turns out more research is saying to limit Vitamin A (beta-carotene). Dr. James Folk, M.D. in his blog about Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) says:
A recent study from Australia showed that dietary lutein and zeaxanthin reduced [...]
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Dr. David Langford, O.D. is the optometrist inside the North Logan, Utah Wal*Mart Vision Center. This website contains information related to your eye health and eyecare products like contacts lenses, frames, and lenses. My goal is to become the trusted eyecare provider of choice for those seeking the best value.
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