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What is New at Richmond Eye Associates:

• April 2012 - All three Richmond Eye Optical locations, Innsbrook, Mechanicsville, and Midlothian, began providing state-of-the-art "high definition" digital lens surfacing on its Essilor progressive "no-line" bifocal lenses.  Read more about this advance in lens technology here.
   

• February 2012 -  The Mechanicsville office of Richmond Eye Associates underwent a major renovation and expansion.  With the new unified waiting area and patient examination area, there is less walking for patients and there is improved handicapped access.  Richmond Eye Optical at Mechanicsville also underwent expansion and renovation.
   

• January 2010 -  Dr. Bryan Brooks now offers the Crystalens® intraocular lens implant at the time of cataract surgery to help reduce the need for reading glasses (presbyopia) after surgery as well as correcting the distance vision.
   

• January 2008 -  Lasik and PRK are offered at Richmond Eye Associates by Dr. Bryan Brooks. He is fully trained to use the latest technology available to give you freedom from glasses or contact lenses. Using state-of-the-art laser technology, which includes CustomVue™ Lasik to improve vision, many patients may see better than they ever could before surgery, even with their glasses or contact lenses.
  
  Dr. Brooks offers complimentary eye examinations to evaluate whether or not you may be a candidate for Laser Vision Correction. If you are interested in having Laser Vision Correction to free yourself from dependence on glasses or contact lenses, call 804-270-0330 for an evaluation.
   

• Fall, 2007 - Richmond Eye Associates offers state of the art intraocular lens implant technology for the correction of presbyopia.  These multifocal lens implants include the AcrySof^® IQ ReSTOR^® lens implant and the AMO TECNIS Multifocal IOL.
  
  Astigmatism can also be corrected using toric lens implants such as the AcrySof® IQ Toric IOL at the time of cataract surgery.
  
  These lens implants are used by Dr. Bryan Brooks and Dr. Alan Chandler of Richmond Eye Associates.
   

• Fall, 2007 - D. Alan Chandler, MD began providing free eye examinations to underprivileged individuals at the Aylett, VA Saint David's Clinic on a monthly basis.
   

Our Doctors In The News

• Bryan Brooks, M.D. was featured in a May 2006 Richmond.com article discussing his service to underprivileged and uninsured individuals at the Crossover Ministry Eye Clinic.
   

• Harold Bernstein, M.D. participated in a live interview with Channel 8, WRIC, concerning glaucoma in March 2005.
   

• David M. Bowman, M.D. authored the December 2004 Ophthalmology Update Newsletter Update on Advances in Cataract Surgery.  Read the Newsletter Here . . .