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You can consider having vision surgery if you are dependent on glasses or contact lenses no matter how low or high your prescription. In general, laser vision correction works best for nearsighted (myopic) people under about -8 diopters. There are better options for...

It depends on what you mean by "astigmatism" and how bad it is. "Astigmatism" means the eye is not regular and equal in its focusing ability for every ray of light entering through the pupil. There is "regular" and what used to be called "irregular" astigmatism (now...

A mirror is not a necessary part of measuring visual acuity. Over 100 years ago, as the science of Optometry and Ophthalmology was developing, distance visual acuity was defined as a measurement at 20 feet and beyond. [Near vision actually requires a different process,...

LASIK works best and is safest in low to moderately high degrees of myopia (nearsightedness) with or without astigmatism. It is not as effective in treating hyperopia (one of the two kinds of farsightedness). It does not correct Presbyopia, the other, age-related kind of...

At Woodhams Eye Clinic we understand that cost is one of the factors when choosing your LASIK surgeon and deciding whether the time is right for your LASIK procedure. You may have even heard of LASIK as low as $250 per eye in some markets. We offer affordable LASIK surgery...

I am sorry to hear this happened! Hyperopia after LASIK for myopia (nearsightedness) means you were overcorrected, that is, you are now farsighted. Reading glasses (plus Rx) would probably help. Can I assume this happened recently and not many years...

Not really. A "color" is what we call a categorization within our conditioned brain of a particular combination of not just wavelength, but saturation and hue. Color is not really "out there." But the different wavelengths of light are really "out there."Am I just playing...

DALK (Deep Anterior Lamellar Keratoplasty) is one of the newer forms of corneal transplants. When the first truly successful cornea transplants were developed in the 1960s, they were Full Thickness (called Penetrating Keratoplasty). The entire central corneal was removed...