Eye floaters are tiny specks or strings that float into your field of vision. While they may be a nuisance, eye floaters should not cause you any pain or discomfort. They can appear as black or gray ...

Eye floaters can be a sign of retinal detachment, but there are many other causes. Some surgeries may help remove eye floaters that result from a detached retina. Eye floaters are when you see specks, ...

You may notice eye floaters when you’re looking at a blank wall, surface, or sky. When you blink or move your eye to try and clear them away, the floaters move with your vision or appear to move away ...

At times, tiny dark specks or thread-like shapes seem to drift across vision, especially when looking at a bright sky or a plain wall. They may vanish when the eyes try to focus on them, but quickly ...

They say the eyes are the window to the soul. If you're doing some soul-searching in the mirror—or just brushing your teeth—and notice tiny specs, you might be concerned. These dots may even look like ...

As many as 76 percent of us experience eye floaters, according to findings in the journal Survey of Ophthalmology. And while some of us are barely bothered by the dots, squiggles and specks that drift ...

Q. What exactly is a floater that you see in your eye? A. Floaters create images in your eye that look like specks, filaments, rings, dots, cobwebs or other shapes. Floaters are the most vivid when ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

Q: There are several dark spots and cobweblike strings in my vision. Is this something to be concerned about? Dark spots such as those you describe may be floaters. These black or gray specks, strings ...