Local researchers at UC Santa Barbara are making great strides in treating eye disease through surgical stem cell implantation in the back of the eye. KEYT recently reported progress being made at the UC Santa Barbara Engineering Department for addressing macular degeneration. The retina lines the back of the eye and the macula is the […]

A patient from Oxnard I saw last week in my Ventura office for a LASIK consultation was wearing contact lenses for astigmatism. He was complaining that every time he blinked, his vision would get blurry. The reason for this — and it is a very common problem for people wearing contact lenses for astigmatism correction […]

A patient from Santa Barbara that I saw in my Ventura office last week asked me about the best way to make the LASIK flap. There are basically two approaches: using the femtosecond laser to make the flap (sometimes called “bladeless LASIK”) or using the mechanical microkeratome to make the flap (often negatively referred to […]

A PRK (flapless LASIK) patient from Santa Maria that I saw in my San Luis Obispo office last week who is in the Army reserves told me he felt he was a far better soldier with his new “phenomenal” eyesight after his laser eye surgery and with his newfound freedom from glasses and contact lenses. […]

A patient, motivated by the Cowboys having their summer training camp in Oxnard, came to my Ventura office for a LASIK consultation to help improve his personal football game. He asked me if pros find that LASIK helps them. The answer is absolutely! Most recently, the NFL linebacker De’Vondre Campbell of the Falcons underwent LASIK to […]