Between 10% and 20% of people with a posterior vitreous detachment will also have a retinal detachment at the time.

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Most older adults - around 70 percent - have experienced squiggly lines and wispy eye “floaters” that obscure or impact their vision. This increasingly happens as people age, due to changes inside the ...

Noticing dark spots or threads in your field of vision becomes more common with age. Seeing a line, spot, or thread drift across your field of vision can be distracting, to say the least. Known as ...

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