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Your eyes are continually changing throughout your life.

At NewView Eye Center, our experienced team can tackle any vision challenge you experience – at every milestone of your life.

10/08/2026

Today is World Sight Day.

According to the World Health Organization, the leading causes of vision loss around the world are a glasses prescription someone needs but does not have, and cataracts. Both are very treatable. That never gets old for us. Some of the best moments in this office are the quiet ones, when someone reads a line on the chart they have not been able to read in years.

If someone you love has mentioned they cannot see the way they used to, today is a good day to give them a nudge. We are grateful to take care of so many of our neighbors across Northern Virginia.

10/07/2026

A quick public service announcement from all of us at NewView, because it is that time of year.

Costume contact lenses (cat eyes, solid white, the dramatic colored ones) are not makeup. In the U.S., every contact lens is a medical device that requires a prescription, even one that does not correct your vision. There is a good reason for that. A lens has to fit the curve of your cornea, the clear dome at the front of your eye. One that does not fit can scratch it or cut off its oxygen, and that opens the door to keratitis, a corneal infection that can leave scarring and, in serious cases, permanent vision loss.

October is Halloween Safety Month for the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and this is the warning they repeat every year. We will repeat it too. If you want the look, have lenses fitted by an eye care professional. And if an eye turns red or painful after wearing a pair, take them out and call us: Reston (703) 485-2148 or Leesburg (703) 777-1244.

10/05/2026

Every year, right around now, we start hearing the same question at the front desk: "Can I still use my FSA for this?"

Usually, yes. Here is the quick version we walk people through:
- FSA (the pre-tax flexible spending account through your employer): many plans are use-it-or-lose-it at the end of the plan year, often December 31. Some allow a short grace period or a small carryover, so check yours.
- HSA (health savings account): the balance rolls over, so there is no year-end rush.
- Deductible (what you pay before insurance starts sharing costs): if you have already met it this year, medically necessary care like cataract surgery may cost less now than after it resets.

Prescription glasses, contacts, and vision correction procedures like LASIK and EVO ICL are generally FSA and HSA eligible. Your plan administrator can confirm the details.

The part people miss is timing. Surgery starts with an evaluation and then a scheduling window, so a December procedure usually means calling in October or early November. Reston (703) 485-2148 or Leesburg (703) 777-1244.

10/02/2026

Cataract surgery replaces your clouded natural lens with a clear artificial one, and the strength of that implant has to be chosen in advance. Measurements of the eye go into a formula that predicts which lens will give the best result. The formulas are very good. They are still a prediction made about an eye that has not healed yet, which is part of why some patients still reach for glasses afterward to get their sharpest vision.

The Light Adjustable Lens changes that order. The implant is made from a material that responds to ultraviolet light, so once your eye has healed and your vision has settled, your surgeon can measure the actual result and then fine tune the lens strength in the office using a few brief light treatments. A final treatment locks it in so the lens no longer changes. To be clear, this is done by your surgeon at scheduled visits. Nothing is adjustable by the patient and nothing shifts on its own. The trade-offs are worth knowing up front: protective glasses have to be worn consistently between surgery and that final lock-in visit, and it means several extra appointments.

For patients with astigmatism, for those who have had laser vision correction in the past, or for anyone who would rather have the outcome confirmed than estimated, this may be worth asking about. Whether it suits your eyes is a consultation question. Call us at (703) 485-2148 in Reston or (703) 777-1244 in Leesburg.

09/18/2026

Blurry vision and distorted vision can feel similar enough that people use the same word for both, but they point to different problems. Blur is a focusing issue, the kind glasses usually address. Distortion is when straight edges stop looking straight: a doorframe bows inward, the lines on a page ripple, the edge of a countertop picks up a gentle curve. That happens when the retina, the light sensing layer lining the back of the eye, is no longer perfectly smooth. The image gets bent before your brain ever receives it.

What makes this worth acting on is timing. Age-related macular degeneration affects the macula, the small central part of the retina responsible for sharp, straight-ahead vision. The dry form progresses slowly, often across years, and is managed with monitoring. The wet form, where fragile new blood vessels grow and leak underneath the retina, can change central vision in a matter of days or weeks. The two can look similar early on but run on very different clocks, so new distortion is treated as something to check quickly rather than watch.

A simple habit for adults over 50: once a week, cover one eye and look at something with a long straight edge, then switch eyes. You are not checking sharpness. You are checking whether the line stays straight. If it does not, call us at (703) 485-2148 in Reston or (703) 777-1244 in Leesburg.

09/16/2026

The screen and blinking connection is usually explained as a matter of frequency: you blink less when you concentrate. That is true, and it is the smaller half of the problem. During long stretches of focus, a lot of blinks become partial, meaning the upper lid comes most of the way down and heads back up before it ever meets the lower lid. It still counts as a blink. It just never sweeps fresh tears across the bottom of the eye.

Every complete blink resurfaces the eye with the tear film, the thin moisture layer that keeps vision sharp and the surface comfortable. When blinks stop finishing, that lower strip goes unrefreshed for hours, and the result is a very specific pattern: burning and grittiness low in the eye, discomfort that builds through the afternoon rather than being there first thing, and vision that softens between blinks and clears when you blink hard. Artificial tears help briefly because they do the spreading your blink did not, which is also why relief from drops alone tends to be short. Fall allergy season can add itching on top of this, which is a separate problem and worth telling apart.

Imagine a day of back to back screens where the last two hours are noticeably harder to see through than the first two. That pattern is worth having evaluated rather than managing with drops indefinitely. Call us at (703) 485-2148 in Reston or (703) 777-1244 in Leesburg.

09/11/2026

Today marks twenty five years since September 11, 2001. In Northern Virginia this is not distant history. It is woven into our neighborhoods, our workplaces, and the families here who still set a table with someone missing from it.

We are thinking of those families today, and of everyone in this community for whom this anniversary carries more weight than a date on a calendar. Thank you for being part of a place that remembers together.

09/09/2026

Most people assume that if glaucoma were taking their vision, they would notice, and that a missing area would show up as a dark patch off to one side. It does not work that way. Glaucoma usually affects peripheral vision first, meaning the outer edges of what you see, and the visual system fills those gaps in automatically using detail from the other eye and from the area around them. The gap never registers as a gap. Patients frequently say their vision felt completely normal at the point when testing showed damage had already begun.

That is why the diagnosis does not depend on what you notice, and why an eye pressure reading alone is an incomplete picture. A visual field test measures how well you detect a small light at many separate points across your range of vision, one spot at a time, and compares today's results against your own earlier ones. It can reveal a pattern of loss your eyes have quietly been compensating for, sometimes years before anything would feel wrong.

Imagine driving the same route for twenty years and never noticing that your side vision had narrowed, because both eyes had been covering for each other the entire time. That is the ordinary case, not the unusual one. If it has been a while since your last full glaucoma evaluation, call us at (703) 485-2148 in Reston or (703) 777-1244 in Leesburg.

09/07/2026

Labor Day is a long weekend now, but it started as something simpler: a day set aside to recognize the work that holds a community together. In this region that covers a lot of ground. The crews out on the Dulles corridor before sunrise, the early shift on the Silver Line platforms, the nurses and teachers and contractors and shop owners who make Northern Virginia run whether or not the rest of us are paying attention.

However you are spending today, whether that is a cookout, a slow morning, a car show in Fairfax, or a walk on the W&OD Trail before the afternoon warms up, we hope it is a genuinely restful one. Thank you for the work you do the other 364 days.

09/04/2026

A LASIK evaluation is really an assessment of one part of the eye: the cornea, the clear dome at the very front that does most of your focusing. LASIK reshapes it, so the evaluation asks whether there is enough corneal tissue to reshape safely and whether its shape is regular enough to work with. The answer comes back no for a handful of reasons. The prescription is very high, the cornea is thinner than the procedure needs, or the tear film (the thin layer of moisture coating the front of the eye) is too unstable to get comfortably through healing. That is a finding about one structure. It is not a verdict on vision correction in general.

The EVO ICL takes a different route. Rather than reshaping the cornea, it places a soft, biocompatible lens inside the eye, behind the iris (the colored part) and in front of your natural lens, where it works alongside your eye's own focusing. Nothing is reshaped and no tissue is removed, which is why it comes up for people with stronger prescriptions or thinner corneas. It is also designed so that it can be removed later if that ever becomes necessary.

Imagine being told years ago that your prescription was too strong for laser correction, and never revisiting it since. Candidacy for the EVO ICL rests on different measurements than LASIK does, so a consultation can help determine whether it may be an option for you. Call us at (703) 485-2148 in Reston or (703) 777-1244 in Leesburg.

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12110 Sunset Hills Road
Reston, VA
20190

Opening Hours

Monday	8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday	8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday	8:30am - 5pm
Thursday	8:30am - 5pm
Friday	8:30am - 5pm

Telephone

+17038349777

Website

https://www.newviewlasereye.com/

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