by David Shapiro, MD
A patient from Santa Barbara I saw today in my Ventura office asked me about whether professional athletes have had LASIK. He is an avid basketball player. I told him that many professional NBA players have undergone LASIK or PRK, as have pros in many other sports. When I have performed LASIK or PRK on […]
by David Shapiro, MD
A LASIK patient from San Luis Obispo who loves her crisp new vision after her laser vision correction eye surgery recently asked me why some people grow up to become nearsighted in the first place — while others do not. This is a great question! Some researchers feel that genetics are the main determinant of […]
by David Shapiro, MD
A patient in my Ventura office who drives an hour to work from Oxnard every day asked me how modern LASIK affects night driving compared to older generations of LASIK. A study was published this month in the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery that looked at how three different latest generation lasers from three […]
by David Shapiro, MD
A patient in my Santa Barbara office asked me today about LASIK for farsightedness. Farsightedness is a situation in which you cannot see near or far, but the near vision is even worse than the far vision. It should not be confused with presbyopia, the age related loss of the ability to see up close. […]
by David Shapiro, MD
I saw a patient from Oxnard today in my Ventura office who asked me about dry after PRK and LASIK. In ophthalmology, we have a term called “the ocular surface” which refers to the environment on the front surface of the eye. When we talk about “the ocular surface”, we’re generally talking about eye surface […]
