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Eyelid Surgery to Improve Vision

Vision Support Lunch & Learn


Eyelid Surgery – Get the Facts!

Friendship Heights Village Center: 4433 South Park Ave., Chevy Chase, MD

Did you know that a droopy eyelid (Ptosis) is most often related to aging and can interfere with vision of one or both eyes? Ptosis can be caused by weakness of the muscles that raise the eyelid, damage to the nerve that controls the muscle, or looseness of the skin of the upper eye. It can also be a result of injury or a disease.

Learn about current thinking on the diagnosis and treatment of droopy.sagging eyelids. Guest speaker Todd Goodglick, M.D., is on the American Board of Ophthalmology and is certified in Neuro-ophthalmology and Oculoplastics.

To register and receive a light lunch, call the Village Center at 301-656-2797.

Hosted by Prevention of Blindness Society of Metropolitan Washington.  For more info, please visit www.youreyes.org/events





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