LeBron James made his regular-season premiere in a Lakers uniform yesterday. Ice Cube introduced him to cheering fans, saying “Laker fans, the wait is over!” Many consider James to be the greatest player in the NBA, yet few people know that LASIK laser vision correction played a major role in launching James’ career and helped him […]
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Nobel Prize for Inventors of LASIK Laser
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded today to Gérard Mourou, PhD and Donna Strickland, PhD, two physicists who helped to develop laser technology used in LASIK laser eye surgery. In granting the award, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences noted Dr. Mourou and Strickland developed laser chirped pulse amplification, a technology which allowed laser energy to be […]
Customized Wavefront vs Topographical LASIK
A patient from Camarillo recently asked me about topographical LASIK and how it compares to customized wavefront LASIK, also known as “wavefront guided” LASIK. The two versions of LASIK differ in how they take measurements of the eye. Topographical LASIK customizes the treatment to a map made of the outer surface of the cornea — […]
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 […]