Laser Surgery Insights

FDA Study: LASIK, Starbursts Around Lights

In response to my recent blogs about modern LASIK reducing the incidence of glare and halos around lights at night, a patient from Oxnard recently asked me about starbursting around lights at night after LASIK. In my previous blogs about night vision after modern LASIK, I discussed the excellent study conducted by the FDA and […]

FDA Study: LASIK Does Not Increase Halos

In my last blog, I discussed the PROWL (Patient Reported Outcomes With LASIK) Study, a comprehensive study of modern LASIK conducted by the FDA and the National Eye Institute, a part of the National Institutes of Health.  I reviewed that the PROWL study had shown that the incidence of glare actually fell by 3 months after modern […]

FDA Study: LASIK Does Not Increase Glare

The National Eye Institute (NEI) is the division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) dedicated to vision research. Recently, the FDA, working in conjunction with the NEI, developed a very sophisticated method to test outcomes after contemporary LASIK laser vision correction eye surgery. This study of the results of modern LASIK is called the Patient Reported Outcomes […]