Recently, a patient in my Santa Barbara office who plays soccer asked me about someone playing a high impact sport having LASIK laser eye surgery. I told him that many professional athletes over the years have undergone PRK or LASIK laser vision correction to improve their performance in their sport. One national league pitcher I performed PRK […]

A patient in my San Luis Obispo office asked me about the difference between custom wavefront LASIK and SMILE (small incision lenticular extraction) for laser eye surgery. Both use a laser to reshape the cornea, but they use different types of lasers and use a different surgical approach. With customized wavefront LASIK, a thin flap […]

A patient from Oxnard asked me about the differences between Customized Wavefront LASIK and PRK. The goal of either LASIK or PRK is to use the excimer laser to reshape the cornea to allow it to focus precisely. Customized Wavefront LASIK involves first creating a thin surface flap, lifting it, and then applying the wavefront guided laser […]

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 […]

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. […]