Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Originally developed by astrophysicists for telescopes, wavefront analysis now holds the promise of ...

Refractive surgery has been shown to induce changes in corneal asphericity. LASIK especially increases coma and spherical-like aberrations in larger myopic treatments. This may partially explain why ...

Laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) was initially reported by Ioannis Pallikaris in 1990 and has since become an efficient and highly popular procedure in corneal refractive surgery. However, a ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Millions of people have reduced their dependence on eyeglasses and contact lenses over the past several years with the refractive surgery procedure known as LASIK. LASIK can correct ...

Judd Hoffman hated putting in contact lenses. Laser eye surgery was just as unappealing. Not only did he shudder at the thought of an instrument touching his eyes, he was afraid something would go ...

San Diego, CA — An independent researcher reporting at the annual meeting of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) finds that "Custom" or Wavefront-guided LASIK produces ...

The Braverman Eye Center in Hallandale Beach, Fla., now performs custom optimized wavefront Lasik surgery. Physicians at the center use the Wavefront-Optimized LASIK for procedures, which is designed ...

Lasik surgery is one method of correcting focusing problems of the eye called refractive errors. The most common refractive errors are nearsightedness or myopia (difficulty seeing distant objects as ...

The thought of LASIK (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis) eye surgery can be frightening for people accustomed to wearing glasses or contacts. Patients are awake during the corrective eye surgery, ...

We asked for your questions last week after features on the vision-correcting surgical procedures Lasik and radial keratotomy. Here, Dr. Rex Hamilton, assistant professor of ophthalmology at the ...