by David Shapiro, MD
Due to the specialty nature of my practice, I am referred patients who have experienced problems with their LASIK performed in other places. One of the most difficult problems to correct after LASIK is called ectasia. Ectasia is a rare complication seen when LASIK is performed in an abnormally weak cornea. In ectasia, the cornea becomes distorted to the […]
by David Shapiro, MD
The FDA just approved Xiidra (lifitegrast) eye drops, the first new dry eye prescription medicine approved in over a decade and only the second prescription medicine approved by the FDA to treat dry eye. The only other previously approved medicine to treat dry eye is Restasis, which also is an eye drop. Over one thousand patients were […]
by David Shapiro, MD
The FDA announced today that it had approved the Raindrop corneal inlay as a treatment for presbyopia — the age related loss of the ability to see up close without reading glasses (cheaters). Presbyopia is caused by the gradual stiffening of the human lens, which sits inside the eye behind the pupil. Generally it starts […]
by David Shapiro, MD
A patient who had seen our practice on KEYT TV in Santa Barbara came in for a consultation today to see if she was a candidate for LASIK. She was a long term contact lens wearer and surprised to find out about the risks of wearing contact lenses and how they compared to the risk of […]
by David Shapiro, MD
A patient from Oxnard who was considering a career in the Air Force as a pilot recently asked me about laser vision correction and being a pilot. I told him the story I had just read about Yuri McKee, M.D., a flight surgeon who had undergone PRK laser eye surgery and said it “changed his […]
