This week marked World Glaucoma Week but what exactly is Glaucoma? It’s defined as a group of eye diseases that cause progressive damage of the optic nerve at the point where it leaves the eye to carry visual information to the brain. If left untreated, most types of glaucoma (without any warning or obvious symptoms to the patient) will result in visual damage and in some cases blindness. Once visual damage has occurred, it is often irreversible. Glaucoma is the second most c