Not everyone gets perfect vision after LASIK surgery. Overall, about 5% of people need some sort of fine-tuning or enhancement. This is usually done at about 3 months after the initial procedure. In general, it is an easier and safer procedure than the first one because the majority of risk in...
There are several falacies regarding the lasers ability to correct astigmatism that carry over from our early days with Lasik and PRK in the 1990's. An astigmatism is, essentially, a minor warpage or uneven shape in the human cornea. As a result of the individual variation of this unevenness...
Ulcers and trauma to the cornea can sometimes form scars if they penetrate beyond the layers of the epithelium. These scars will most likely be permanent since the inner layers of the cornea do not recycle like the outer epithelial layer. These superficial scars are generally not a...