A patient from Oxnard asked me if there were any very large studies of patients having LASIK. Just last week, Kerry Solomon, MD gave an important talk to the annual Refractive Surgery Subspecialty Conference at the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Dr. Solomon reviewed a meta-analysis (overview study) of 67,893 eyes that had undergone LASIK between 2008 and 2015. First, Dr. Solomon noted […]

The Shapiro Laser Eye Center is honored to be quoted today in Women’s Health Magazine in an article by Kate Bayless about vision and glasses correction. This article looks at how the way glasses sit on your head can affect vision. One of the optical downsides of glasses is that they need to seat perfectly or their level […]

A new study by the US Navy looked at a very important question from the Navy’s perspective: was LASIK better than glasses or contacts for the critical visual needs of a high performance Navy pilot? In other words, the study didn’t look simply at whether or not LASIK improved vision, but at whether LASIK improved the […]

A patient from Santa Barbara recently asked my opinion about ICL surgery.  Unfortunately, some patients are not good candidates for laser vision correction, whether LASIK or PRK. In many cases (such as hers), this is simply because the patient is too extremely nearsighted to fall within the optimal range of LASIK or PRK treatment. One […]

Major League Baseball player Wilson Ramos, catcher for the Washington Nationals, credits his recent LASIK for improved performance at the plate. Ramos underwent LASIK laser eye surgery on March 4 of this year and almost immediately his hitting improved.  Ramos said he’s “more comfortable and I’m seeing the pitch really, really well after surgery. Now I can say the […]