To reduce a persons dependency on glasses or contact lenses one can have Lasik surgery. The term LASIK stands for Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis and is a procedure through which you permanently changes the shape of the cornea. The cornea is the clear covering of the front of the eye.

Doctors use an excimer laser to perform this kind of surgery. A small knife, called a microkeratome, is used to cut a flap in the cornea. Read the rest of this entry »

Lasik eye surgery is a refractive surgical procedure that works wonders on the eyes of people suffering from nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism and presbyopia. It reduces a person’s complete dependency on glasses and contact lenses. The full form of Lasik is Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis and is a procedure that involves permanently changing the shape of the cornea, the clear covering of the front of the eye using an excimer laser. Read the rest of this entry »

Laser eye surgery is a medical procedure consisting of the use of laser for reshaping the surface of the cornea. It is used to improve myopia (shortsightedness), hypermetropia (long sightedness) or astigmatism. The first information on laser eye surgery dates back from over twenty years ago. Read the rest of this entry »

Astigmatism lasik surgery is useful for treating astigmatism and is very predictable especially in the case of iris recognition technology that uses Zyoptix Wavefront to map the treatment onto the cornea. For the complete surgery, treatment should be delivered at the exact right angle and in case of the eye being rotated a few degrees the magnitude of the correction can be reduced. Read the rest of this entry »

The pair of glasses that you recently purchased reflects a stronger prescription, have no-line bifocals and have been coated with a special substance to reduce glare. You would think that after wearing eyeglasses the majority of your life you would get used to them, but that does not seem to be the case. Read the rest of this entry »