"Floaters" are not caused by LASIK, PRK, or for that matter, IOL surgery for cataracts. Nevertheless, this can be a common complaint from patients. Why is that? The pinhole test uses a 1.0 mm hole in an opaque disk to determine how much of a visual...
If you only have one good eye, it is truly a scary decision to consider having an operation of any kind on the other eye. After all, there is no "back-up" should there be a serious complication. And nobody can tell you honestly there will...
It depends on what you mean by "dangerous." Obviously the higher degree of myopic (nearsighted) Rx with a -7.5 D. correction is going to be worse uncorrected at distance than the -5 D. eye. But the difference is negligible from the point of view of how well...
Refractive (vision) surgery as it is called is considered “elective” rather than “medically necessary” by commercial and government medical insurance programs. This is because historically nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism were not considered medical conditions. These were the business of Optometry and considered a trivial enough...
This is a very common question eye doctors are asked. The number ratio "20/20 or 20/40 etc." is a measurement of visual acuity. If your visual acuity is not 20/20, it can be from pathology (like cataract) or it can be from what we call "refractive error" e.g. nearsightedness, astigmatism, farsightedness -which are not...
