Lasik Eye Surgery

Every year over one million Americans have LASIK eye surgery. When the surgery is preformed correctly and without complications, the results can be dramatic: patients with horrible eyesight can now live free from glasses and contacts. When the surgery is performed incorrectly, however, the results can be disastrous. To deal with negative results, patients are […]

Are you over 45? If so, there is a new lasik eye surgery treatment that could work for you:

Dr. Khanna, medical director of the Khanna Institute of LASIK and Refractive Surgery, is now offering a new treatment modality, the ReSTOR lens that relies on advanced multi-focal technology that allows patients to see both near and […]

Radio commercials and magazine ads trumpet so-called \”flap and zap\” laser eye surgery - one of the fastest-growing medical procedures in the United States - which last year helped lure about 1 million blurry-eyed Americans into doctors\’ offices in the hope of throwing their glasses in the trash forever. But while laser eye surgery is […]

Pamela Ware, just like any person seeking to get rid of glasses and contacts, wanted to get LASIK Surgery. She had friends who’s procedures were successful. Pamela made an appointment with Dr. James Boop in November of 2001. Two weeks later, she was getting LASIK Surgery.

Pamela Ware says immediately after surgery her vision turned […]

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Just ignore the fact that the laser machine looks like a spray-painted vacuum handle… And remember, don’t blink!

Here’s a rather enthusiastic account of how Lasik surgery chaged a life.

At my first eye exam, I couldn’t even see “The Big E,” much less which way it pointed. I had to get out of the chair and grope toward it.

Rx: powder blue fairy wing eyeglasses. Next came pink ones. Later, black, navy, brown and […]

An article in the Times Online declares that laser eye surgery “is now regarded as being as safe as contact lenses”. This is mainly a result of the spread of Intralasik, which has been found to give better results with fewer complications.

A study presented to the Royal College of Ophthalmology last year showed that […]

Dr. Ming Wang, clinical associate professor of ophthalmology at the University of Tennessee and director of the Wang Vision Institute, says he is scheduled to perform the first bladeless LASIK surgery in China on Sunday.

Wang is a co-president of the three-day Shanghai International Eye Conference and is a native of China.

He says the event will […]

Eye surgeon Dr. Ralph Chu of the Chu Vision Institute said 40 percent of people have to deal with it eventually.

“When we do cataract surgery, we’re actually replacing the cloudy natural lens of the eye,” Chu said.

At 76, Doris Johnson wants to see what she’s been missing.

Once her old lens is removed a flexible plastic […]

For many medical tourists, though, the real attraction is price. The cost of surgery in India, Thailand or South Africa can be one-tenth of what it is in the United States or Western Europe, and sometimes even less. A heart-valve replacement that would cost $200,000 or more in the U.S., for example, goes for $10,000 […]