Are your contacts ripping often? Soft contact lenses are a wonderful invention and are drastically more comfortable for many patients than the older-style hard contacts. But with this increased comfort comes increased fragility. Soft contact lenses are made of flexible plastic that lets oxygen pass through to...
A lens Rx for -14 Diopters tells us you have a very, very high degree of nearsightedness (myopia). This would be considered in the "severe" range. Of all the people who are myopic, less than 2% are worse than -10 Diopters. Myopia, however, is not a...
A dilemma, isn't it? The one good thing about being nearsighted is that you can still see up close (at least without your glasses on) when you become Presbyopic in middle age. The reason for this is that with a myopic (nearsighted) eye being larger than normal, your default focal point...
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...
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...
Charges for the LASIK procedure can vary widely depending on the type of procedure, surgeon and even the region of the country. The range of cost for LASIK per eye is typically between $1,750 to $2,500 in the U.S. , all things included. Often extremely low prices of $399 or $695 per eye...
Well, there are actually several different issues at work here, so a "Yes or No" answer is not possible. First: What does it mean to be "legally blind?" In most states, if you have distance visual acuity less than 20/200 that is not correctable with glasses/contact lenses, you...