A patient from Camarillo who wears daily wear soft contact lenses asked me if LASIK would make her eyes more dry than contacts do. The American Academy of Ophthalmology just published a 3 year long study that compared many issues between having LASIK and wearing contact lenses, including dry eye. This was a very large study […]

A patient from Ventura who was in his 40’s asked me whether he would need reading glasses (“cheaters”) to see up close after his LASIK laser vision correction. One good option to minimize the use of reading glasses is laser blended vision in which the dominant eye is set for distance and the non-dominant eye […]

A patient from Oxnard who has worn contact lenses for many years and was considering having LASIK asked me how night vision compared between contacts and LASIK. The American Academy of Ophthalmology just published an excellent three year study looking at, among other things, this very question of night vision after LASIK. This was a very […]

A patient in my Santa Barbara office asked me today whether there were any advances in treating presbyopia, the age related loss of the ability to see up close. She was looking for a solution to avoid reading glasses after LASIK. Presbyopia occurs because the lens of the eye, which sits inside the eye and […]

A patient from Santa Maria who I saw in my San Luis Obispo office was considering LASIK, but asked me how patients compared their LASIK to their previous use of contact lenses. This is a good question because LASIK is truly an elective procedure and would only make sense if it made patients happier than the […]