All LASIK surgeons encounter occasional complications during surgery LASIK is an excellent procedure and patients can still achieve great outcomes after complications I deal with intraoperative complications using a ‘what went right?’ method I overview my method and detail scenarios of different LASIK ...
What are the risks of AK? There are risks with all forms of eye surgery. Surgery is, in general, very safe and complications are rare. However, things can go wrong in a small minority of cases. There are side effects and complications associated with AK which are:...
I’m sure many of us have read stories, seen films or TV shows where people start dating or become close friends and then find out they are actually related to each other. But it’s not always about the relationship. Sometimes, cousins, while being blood related, can have very different ...
CAN WE COMPARE MIGS WITH TRADITIONAL SURGERY? Although there is a paucity of high-quality long-term data, we have learned from our tube shunt and trabeculectomy experience that ECL after traditional filtering surgery is inevitable and can be significant. In one study of tube shunts, ECL...
The result may be a deaf child who can partially hear, or a hearing child with a deaf cultural heritage. Either way, the child may face social ostracism from both communities if the parents do not consider the long-term effects of cochlear implant surgery. Not all members of the deaf comm...
Have you been through surgery? Got any advice? I don’t go anywhere on my own without a cane, as I need the cane to help stop the feeling I might fall or lose my footing. Even though my eyes have improved, I can no longer rely on them for keeping my balance. I’ve fallen numer...
“The biggest problem,” he adds, “is that if you have a large myopic miss—let’s say -9 D—you’re not going to solve that with LASIK or PRK, and you can’t get an IOL that high. You can use an implantable contact lens off-label; they come in powers up to ...
I am constantly twitching my eye just to read the computer screen, especially on pages with white backgrounds. ;-P Thanks for mentioning how surgery is available. All of my eye doctors have said nothing can be done, that I should live with it; but of course I’ve read about lasers and...
Anyway, hope this helps! :D Bylolamom— On Jul 14, 2007 can a symptom of astigmatism be when you cover one eye the object looks zoomed in on and when you cover the other eye the object looks like you zoomed out so with one eye covered the picture looked really big and when i cove...
Anyway, hope this helps! :D Bylolamom— On Jul 14, 2007 can a symptom of astigmatism be when you cover one eye the object looks zoomed in on and when you cover the other eye the object looks like you zoomed out so with one eye covered the picture looked really big and when i cove...