by David Shapiro, MD
A patient from Oxnard asked me today about using the laser to correct near vision. Presbyopia is the age related loss of the ability to read up close — and it affects everybody eventually. Presbyopia occurs because the lens of the eye becomes less flexible with age and therefore is less and less able to bulge to […]
by David Shapiro, MD
A patient from Thousand Oaks who is hoping for a career as a professional basketball player asked me how pros like their LASIK. I told him that LA Clippers’ point guard Chris Paul is attributing his early season shooting success this year to his recent LASIK laser vision correction. Paul’s shooting improved to 47.3% from […]
by David Shapiro, MD
A patient from Santa Maria recently asked me about dry eye and LASIK. Many patients have difficulty with their contact lenses due to underlying dry eye and look to LASIK as an alternative to contacts. To optimize the results of LASIK, it is helpful to treat dry eye before undergoing LASIK or PRK laser eye […]
by David Shapiro, MD
A patient from Camarillo recently asked me about topographical LASIK and how it compares to customized wavefront LASIK, also known as “wavefront guided” LASIK. The two versions of LASIK differ in how they take measurements of the eye. Topographical LASIK customizes the treatment to a map made of the outer surface of the cornea — […]
by David Shapiro, MD
A patient from Santa Barbara recently asked me if there were any new vision correction surgeries on the horizon and what role they would fill. While I think that customized wavefront LASIK and PRK are highly evolved and will represent the state of the art for most patients for quite some time into the future, […]
