Why Do People Get Retinal Detachments?

Retinal detachments have many different causes. Watch this video to learn more from Dr. Manvi Maker about why people get retinal detachments.

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Retinal detachment has many different causes. Some of the most common kinds we see are caused from initially tears that happen in the retina.

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And how that happens is there's jelly substance called the vitreous that fills the inside of the eyeball. With time, that jelly becomes a little bit thinner

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as we get older, and can sometimes pull off of certain parts of the back of the eye. In that process, it can sometimes

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tear the retina with it. And once the jelly has torn the retina, it can actually go through the hole, and start pulling off the retina kind of like wallpaper.