A patient from Santa Maria recently asked me about dry eye and LASIK. Many patients have difficulty with their contact lenses due to underlying dry eye and look to LASIK as an alternative to contacts. To optimize the results of LASIK, it is helpful to treat dry eye before undergoing LASIK or PRK laser eye […]

A patient from Santa Barbara recently asked me if there were any new vision correction surgeries on the horizon and what role they would fill. While I think that customized wavefront LASIK and PRK are highly evolved and will represent the state of the art for most patients for quite some time into the future, […]

A patient from Oxnard asked me if there were any very large studies of patients having LASIK. Just last week, Kerry Solomon, MD gave an important talk to the annual Refractive Surgery Subspecialty Conference at the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Dr. Solomon reviewed a meta-analysis (overview study) of 67,893 eyes that had undergone LASIK between 2008 and 2015. First, Dr. Solomon noted […]

The Shapiro Laser Eye Center is honored to be quoted today in Women’s Health Magazine in an article by Kate Bayless about vision and glasses correction. This article looks at how the way glasses sit on your head can affect vision. One of the optical downsides of glasses is that they need to seat perfectly or their level […]

A new study by the US Navy looked at a very important question from the Navy’s perspective: was LASIK better than glasses or contacts for the critical visual needs of a high performance Navy pilot? In other words, the study didn’t look simply at whether or not LASIK improved vision, but at whether LASIK improved the […]