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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

A patient from San Luis Obispo asked me about a blog I had previously posted on an exciting new drop that possibly could cure presbyopia, the age related loss of the ability to see up close. Presbyopia typically starts at age 40 and is due to the lens becoming progressively stiffer as it loses its ability to […]

Last week a patient in my Ventura office who wore contact lenses asked me about infections with LASIK. Many people would assume contact lenses would be safer than LASIK laser eye surgery since LASIK is a surgical procedure. A recent study from the Hamilton Eye Center at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, however, […]