by David Shapiro, MD
A patient from Ventura who has dry eyes and is considering LASIK asked me what we can do to improve her dry eye before surgery. It is important to treat pre-existing dry eye before LASIK as this makes for smoother healing with less dry eye after laser eye surgery. One of our most important tools for […]
by David Shapiro, MD
A patient from Santa Barbara recently asked me a very common question: can LASIK laser eye surgery treat astigmatism? The answer is yes! In fact, we have been able to treat astigmatism for well over a decade and a half , but the treatments have gotten more and more precise as LASIK has evolved over the years. […]
by David Shapiro, MD
A patient from Camarillo who wears daily wear soft contact lenses asked me if LASIK would make her eyes more dry than contacts do. The American Academy of Ophthalmology just published a 3 year long study that compared many issues between having LASIK and wearing contact lenses, including dry eye. This was a very large study […]
by David Shapiro, MD
A patient from Ventura who was in his 40’s asked me whether he would need reading glasses (“cheaters”) to see up close after his LASIK laser vision correction. One good option to minimize the use of reading glasses is laser blended vision in which the dominant eye is set for distance and the non-dominant eye […]
by David Shapiro, MD
A patient from Oxnard who has worn contact lenses for many years and was considering having LASIK asked me how night vision compared between contacts and LASIK. The American Academy of Ophthalmology just published an excellent three year study looking at, among other things, this very question of night vision after LASIK. This was a very […]
