by David Shapiro, MD
A patient from Camarillo asked how LASIK would affect his basketball game. I mentioned that several professional athletes have had LASIK. The most recent professional to have LASIK to improve his game is San Antonio Spurs’ shooting guard Danny Green. Green had been one of the best shooting marksmen in the NBA since joining the Spurs in the […]
by David Shapiro, MD
The annual meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery recently concluded. This meeting brings together thousands of ophthalmologists from around the world and is generally considered the most important meeting of the year for laser vision correction studies. Steven J. Dell presented a very interesting study comparing long-term contact lens wear to custom wavefront […]
by David Shapiro, MD
This morning, a patient from San Luis Obispo and a patient from Ventura both asked me about a TV show they had seen this morning featuring a new treatment for reading glasses. ABC’s Good Morning America ran a segment titled “Revolutionary New Procedure Could Replace Reading Glasses” this morning and it received quite a bit of […]
by David Shapiro, MD
In response to my recent blogs about modern LASIK reducing the incidence of glare and halos around lights at night, a patient from Oxnard recently asked me about starbursting around lights at night after LASIK. In my previous blogs about night vision after modern LASIK, I discussed the excellent study conducted by the FDA and […]
by David Shapiro, MD
In my last blog, I discussed the PROWL (Patient Reported Outcomes With LASIK) Study, a comprehensive study of modern LASIK conducted by the FDA and the National Eye Institute, a part of the National Institutes of Health. I reviewed that the PROWL study had shown that the incidence of glare actually fell by 3 months after modern […]
