A patient from Santa Barbara recently asked me about vision with contact lenses vs. LASIK. A recent study published in the prestigious medical journal Ophthalmology found that former contact lens wearers were happier with LASIK than contact lens wearers who continued to wear contacts. The difference became more pronounced as time went on. The study involved 20 sites across the United States and enrolled 1800 patients ranging in age from 16 to 60 years old. By 3 years after the start of the study, former contact lens wearers who had undergone LASIK had 88% satisfaction rates. By contrast, those who continued to wear contacts only had a 54% satisfaction rate. The study also found that LASIK improved night vision compared to previous contact lenses or previous glasses. This is consistent with what we have found at the Shapiro Laser Eye Center. I presented a study of LASIK from our practice at the Shapiro Laser Eye Center using the latest customized wavefront LASIK technology at the annual meeting of the Association for Research and Vision in Ophthalmology (ARVO) . In our study, 100% of patients said they saw at least as well as they did before surgery with their glasses or contacts and 96% said after LASIK they actually saw better than they saw with their glasses or contacts.