Diseases of the Vitreous (the jelly inside the eye)

Many people approach me with a complaint of different visual field disturbances which they describe as black dots, curly lines, floaters, or flies and the like that are seen in their visual field. These disturbances usually come and go, and may change shape or location. They often move around and hence are noted in different […]

In every eye, at a certain point in life, generally between the ages of 50-70 an event known as posterior vitreous detachment will occur. It is also called PVD, for short. This is a condition in which the gel that fills the eye detaches from its connections to the retina and essentially aggregates in the