Many people have corrective eye surgery to treat eye conditions. In some cases, the person pursues an elective surgery, such as Lasik, to improve vision, while others may have a medical need for the surgery. In either situation, a person should...
Many millions of people have one type or another of difficulty with their vision. For much of history, the only treatment option for vision problems was the use of eyeglasses, but in recent years a variety of different surgical procedures have...
Doctors use laser surgery to treat and correct many eye conditions. As with any type of surgery, laser procedures on the eye may have side effects. Many of these problems gradually disappear as the eye heals. However, knowing the possible...
LASIK is a corrective eye surgery that is performed by a specially trained surgeon. LASIK should only be performed after careful consideration on the part of the doctor and the patient, and after all risks and advantages have been fully discussed...
PRK, or photorefractive keratectomy, was invented in the early 1980s and was the first kind of corrective eye surgery to use a laser rather than a blade to remove corneal tissue. PRK uses an excimer laser that sends out a cool beam of ultraviolet...
If you have problems with your vision, you may not have to incur the costs of having them fixed with expensive corrective eye surgery. Numerous exercises can be performed with your eyes that help improve your vision. Although these exercises can...
LASIK procedures are used to re-shape the cornea, the dome shaped covering of the eye, to correct refractive errors like near-sightedness, far-sightedness and astigmatism. Wavefront technology, a technique that uses three-dimensional images in...
LASIK surgery is a type of corrective eye surgery that eliminates the need for further visual assistance such as eyeglasses or contact lenses. LASIK (an acronym for laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis) is performed when a doctor uses an eximer...
Laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) surgery helps those who need corrective lenses. By reforming the cornea, patients' vision return to normal, or close to normal. As a result, most patients no longer require glasses or contact lenses,...
Contact lenses are a simple solution to temporarily correct vision problems. They're less cumbersome than eyeglasses, and not a permanent undertaking like corrective eye surgery. But soft contact lenses aren't without risks, including infection,...
Laser skin resurfacing has the remarkable ability to correct many signs of aging, such as age spots, dark eye circles, dull skin and fine wrinkles, as well as other cosmetic defects. The American Academy of Dermatology states that while laser skin...
There are several different eye defects. Some are present at birth while others develop over time due to aging or disease. In some cases, these problems can be easily corrected. If left untreated, however, some eye defects might lead to loss of...
Certain eye issues, such as those that include the degeneration of the eye or an abnormal eye shape are conditions that require corrective lenses or surgery to correct. No amount of eye exercises can improve astigmatism or near and...
You are able to see objects by a complex process. As light bounces off objects it is reflected and picked up by your cornea. The American Optometric Association states that, "For clear vision to occur, the cornea must have the correct shape and...
Gradual vision loss can lead to near- or farsightedness, making objects appear blurry and hard to make out. In the past, treatment options included corrective lenses. Contact lenses and glasses seemed to be the only recourse for correcting vision...
The term "lazy eye" describes a problem between neural pathways in the brain and eye that result in a loss of vision. Lazy eye exercises for adults are designed to strength the ocular muscles in an effort to correct a lazy eye. Although corrective...
Amblyopia, commonly known as "lazy eye," is a condition in which one eye works harder than the other to gather visual stimuli and transmit these stimuli to your brain. It may be caused by visual alignment problems, or by differences between your...
Laser surgery can correct refractive errors of vision, including nearsightedness, or myopia; farsightedness, or hyperopia; and astigmatism, an unevenness of the cornea. Photoreactive keratectomy, or PRK, the most common type of corrective laser...
Strabismus, an eye condition more commonly referred to as crossed eyes or lazy eye is a common phenomenon affecting about 5 percent of young children. Crossed eyes vary in severity, affecting some people all of the time, and others only when...
Laser in-situ keratomileusis (LASIK) is the most common type of laser surgery performed for vision correction. More than 16 million laser eye surgeries have been performed worldwide, according to a review by the Joint LASIK Study Task Force...
Refractive errors are the most common types of eye disorders, according to the Foundation of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Light entering the eye bends as it passes through the cornea--the curved dome that covers the front of the eye--and...
Eye laser surgery is a corrective procedure meant to remedy vision focal ability, according to MedlinePlus, a service of the National Institutes of Health. Laser-assisted in-situ keratomileusis, or LASIK, is among the most typical kinds of eye...
Eye surgery, while once a tricky procedure that required working with microscopic structures, is now performed on a regular basis. Eye surgery ranges from corrective procedures to vision-saving surgeries that correct cataracts, glaucoma or eye...
First, understand that Lasik is surgery. There are risks with any surgery you undergo. Keeping that in mind, fewer than 1 percent of patients who undergo Lasik surgery have serious complications that are not repairable with further surgery. If...
Legal blindness, described in the United States as vision less than 20/200 in the better seeing eye, affects 3.3 million Americans over age 40, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Many more lose vision only in one eye. A number of...
Laser eye surgery is used to correct refractive vision problems such as nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism. Two common forms of laser eye surgery are photorefractive keratectomy, or PRK, and laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis, or...
Laser eye correction, also called LASIK surgery, is a surgical procedure that allows people with poor vision to see better without wearing glasses or contact lenses. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the sale and safety of laser eye...
The Children's Vision Information Network says that newborn babies already have the eye structures for vision, and must learn to use them. As they grow, children develop visual skills such as focus and hand-eye coordination. As their visual skills...
Strabismus is the medical term for misalignment of the eyes. In many cases, the condition results from a lack of muscle control that causes one eye to wander in another direction. Three percent of children are affected by strabismus and may...
