Laser Surgery Insights

99% of Contact Lens Users Risk Eye Infection

A patient who had seen our practice on KEYT TV in Santa Barbara came in for a consultation today to see if she was a candidate for LASIK. She was a long term contact lens wearer and surprised to find out about the risks of wearing contact lenses and how they compared to the risk of […]

Air Force Flight Surgeon Thrilled With PRK

A patient from Oxnard who was considering a career in the Air Force as a pilot recently asked me about laser vision correction and being a pilot. I told him the story I had just read about Yuri McKee, M.D., a flight surgeon who had undergone PRK laser eye surgery and said it “changed his […]

Latest Professional Athlete Having LASIK

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 […]

Study: LASIK Has Better Vision, Safer Than Contacts

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 […]

A New Treatment for Reading Glasses on TV

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 […]