Archive for October, 2006

Study claims Lasik safer than Contact Lenses

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Read the details in this article at Science Daily.

Grave’s Disease

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

C.H. asks if Grave’s Disease disqualifies a person from having Lasik. Not necessarily. Grave’s disease can be considered auto-immune in nature thus making one’s overall immune system slightly suspect for healing purposes. If Grave’s has caused the eyes to protrude, often making blinking abnormal, or if there is unusual dryness from the Grave’s, then this [...]

Technis question

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

Frank Asks: Interested in Technis Iol Z9000. They make remarkable claims on restoring full functional sight. Your comments please. The Technis intraocular lens was the first to employ the concept of higher order aberration correction into an IOL. This is similar, in a limited way, to what we try to do with our wavefront guided [...]