by David Shapiro, MD
A PRK (flapless LASIK) patient from Santa Maria that I saw in my San Luis Obispo office last week who is in the Army reserves told me he felt he was a far better soldier with his new “phenomenal” eyesight after his laser eye surgery and with his newfound freedom from glasses and contact lenses. […]
by David Shapiro, MD
A patient, motivated by the Cowboys having their summer training camp in Oxnard, came to my Ventura office for a LASIK consultation to help improve his personal football game. He asked me if pros find that LASIK helps them. The answer is absolutely! Most recently, the NFL linebacker De’Vondre Campbell of the Falcons underwent LASIK to […]
by David Shapiro, MD
A LASIK patient from Santa Barbara that I saw in my Ventura office last week asked me about how to safely view tomorrow’s eclipse. First, those who have had LASIK or PRK are no different form anyone else in terms of the safety guidelines they should follow to protect the eyes during a solar eclipse. […]
by David Shapiro, MD
A patient from Santa Maria that I just saw in my San Luis Obispo office asked me about SMILE laser eye surgery. SMILE, or small incision lenticular extraction, is a new laser vision correction eye surgery. It involves using a femtosecond laser to sculpt a contoured disc of tissue from within the cornea. The same […]
by David Shapiro, MD
A patient from Oxnard that I saw in my Ventura office asked me about a laser eye surgery she saw on TV called SMILE. SMILE (small incision lenticule extraction) is a new laser vision correction surgery in which the surgeon uses the femtosecond laser to separate out a thin “coin” of tissue from within the […]
