Yes. LASIK surgery can correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. Dr. Gina Shetty is an experienced eye surgeon who has been changing client's lives with vision correction surgery. LASIK for Nearsightedness Nearsightedness (myopia) causes patients to have difficulty seeing things that are far away. Because their eye is longer than a normal...
Not sure if your question is asking about SMILE in particular or just about laser vision correction in general. Fortunately, the answer is basically the same for LASIK, PRK, and SMILE. These procedures do not actually "make bad vision good" although that is indirectly what...
No. The light used in routine eye exams is not intense enough, nor is it a wavelength to cause damage to the various eye structures. _Written by J. Trevor Woodhams, M.D. - Chief of Surgery, Woodhams Eye Clinic ...
Many years ago it was said: You have to wait until cataracts are "ripe" to do surgery. What that meant was that the discolored natural lens (which is the "cataract") needed to reach such a state of complete density that it could be manually pushed out of...
No. LASIK is surgery and no surgical procedure is 100% risk-free. With very rare exceptions, LASIK patients are extremely happy with their results. Side effects and complications are exceptionally rare. But that does not mean LASIK is totally safe. Nor does a complication mean the doctor did something...
Not really. If you are myopic (nearsighted) and wear contact lenses, there is virtually no difference in the blurred near vision from presbyopia compared to somebody without myopia. If you are myopic, however, taking off your glasses can provide better near vision than when the glasses were being worn....
We normally allow about two weeks between doing a cataract/IOL procedure on the first and second eyes. It is quite unlikely (but not impossible) that there could be a problem not discovered in that length of time. Occasionally we will do the second eye sooner...
Glaucoma and LASIK are totally separate issues, not related in any causal way. What you may be thinking of is the issue of measuring intraocular pressure after LASIK. High eye pressure is one of the more important diagnostic signs of glaucoma. So in patients with subtle signs, or...
Because there is an incompletely transparent object between your eye and the world. While spectacle lenses are invaluable in correcting what eye doctors call Refractive Errors" such as myopia and astigmatism, they do so at a small cost in terms of visual quality. The front...
Because there are two different types of vision at work. Straight-ahead vision puts an image on the macula, at the geographic center of the retina. [The retina is the "film" in the camera analogy of the eye.]The macula is packed very tightly with "cone" photoreceptor...