A huge new study reassures patients with large pupils that they can still have LASIK with no increased risk of night vision problems. One of the most concerning issues to patients thinking about having LASIK or PRK laser vision correction eye surgery is the issue of pupil size and night vision. There is still a […]

This large, 10 year study of over 20,000 nearsighted patients undergoing LASIK suggests LASIK does not increase the risk of retinal detachment. A patient from San Luis Obispo asked me me an excellent question today. She asked whether LASIK causes retinal detachments. It turns out this is a very good question because nearsighted people already […]

Conventional LASIK is the traditional form of laser eye surgery, but wavefront LASIK personalizes and customizes the laser vision correction procdure to your eye. A patient from Thousand Oaks in Ventura County just asked me a good question. He wanted to know the difference between conventional LASIK and wavefront LASIK. Both conventional LASIK and wavefront […]

Therapeutic wavefront LASIK was used to correct night vision problems after conventional LASIK performed elsewhere in a patient with very large pupils. In my last blog, I talked about how large pupils are not necessarily a problem for night vision and LASIK. Unfortunately, the myth that large pupils cause night vision problems after LASIK still […]

Patients with Large Pupils Can Enjoy Good Night Vision After LASIK With Customized Wavefront Laser Eye Surgery. In a recent blog, I looked at how the development of Customized Wavefront LASIK has largely solved the issue of night vision problems after LASIK. Night vision problems were mostly associated with the use of conventional, non-Wavefront LASIK. […]