Stem Cells and Eyesight
Stem cell therapy is now being used to treat damage to the cornea, according to research published by the University of Sheffield, England, in December. The cornea is the transparent layer on the front of the eye. Damage to the cornea is one of the major causes of blindness. What may be less familiar than…
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LASIK Candidates
The word “candidate” usually evokes ideas and images about politicians, campaigns, and elections. The field of laser vision correction has its candidate selection process too, but it has nothing to do with politics! Although LASIK can be very successful when performed on the right patients, it may not be for everyone. Generally, the best candidates…
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LASIK Makes History, Part 2
Last week we left off “Part 1” reporting the historic moment for LASIK at the end of last year with President Obama’s awarding an IBM team of scientists who discovered how the excimer laser could be used for vision-correction surgery. Part of that discovery included the team of researchers demonstrating the precision and scale of…
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LASIK Makes History!
This week we get to revisit our beloved LASIK, with which we climaxed 2012. Just as we were really ramping up into the festivities of the Christmas season, on another celebrated calendar day, December 21st (winter solstice), 2012 – the day that life as we knew it was supposed to end – U.S. President Obama…
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My LASIK Generation!
There is little doubt, that in terms of vision correction, we are in the exciting LASIK Generation! In general terms, up to the early 20th century there was the horse and buggy generation, then the automobile generation. Silent film, “talkies,” Television, videotape, DVD, internet video, downloadable video. So now we’re going to skip a lot…
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LASIK Nutrition
While the general pre-operative-LASIK preparation for patients has become essentially traditional—for instance, if you wear contact lenses, you must switch to eyeglasses three weeks before your initial evaluation. Yet, for the post-operative-LASIK period, a more recent awareness has been developing, in the area of diet. Until, should we say, the 21st Century, nutrition in ophthalmology…
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LASIK for Presbyopia? Yes, It’s About Time!
Yes, presbyopia is about time, the passing of time, about 40 years of it, which causes the condition. While people wanting LASIK treatment for presbyopia may not be overly enthusiastic about how the condition gets its name, the source is at least visually interesting: PRESBUS. It’s Greek, and the Latin translation is senex, which leads us to…
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LASIK Unique
All human beings have many of the same things in common: for example, the survival needs of air, water, food, protection from the elements including sufficient warmth and coolness, etc. Yet, each human is also unique, differing from one the other in personality, physiognomy, skin color, hair color, eye color, specific DNA or genetic make-up……
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IntraLase History
In these pages we have taken a look at the femtosecond laser and IntraLase technology. But we have only just scratched the surface of the genius and development of this natural miracle. Humankind once thought the earth was flat, and sometimes I think it still is, especially when I’m driving for hours across the desert…
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Eye and Camera, Part 3
Most digital cameras have 5-20 megapixels, which is far less powerful than human vision. This is based on the fact that at 20/20 vision, the human eye is able to resolve the equivalent 52 megapixels—up to ten times more than a camera!, and that’s assuming a 60-degree angle of view.
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