Can you get LASIK twice? Can you get LASIK twice? The short answer? Yes. When my patients ask me: “Can you get LASIK more than once?” or “How many times can you get LASIK?” My […]

What’s the Difference Between Farsighted and Nearsighted?Nearsighted vs farsighted. This is another area where many people are confused. When I was a child, all I learned was that farsightedness meant that you could see far […]

How can I prevent or slow my child’s nearsightedness? A World Health Organization (WHO) report from 2015 https://www.who.int/blindness/causes/MyopiaReportforWeb.pdf#12 describes an alarming increase in the percentage of people who are nearsighted, and the increasing degree of […]

How bad is my eye prescription? Many of my patients ask me, “How bad is my eye prescription?” or “What eye prescription is considered bad?” Sometimes they’ll ask “What eye prescription is legally blind?” or […]

Alternatives to LASIK : options for laser eye surgery When people come to me and say they want LASIK, I think what they are saying is that they want to live their lives free of […]

How old do you have to be to get laser eye surgery? What is the LASIK age limit? I’m glad you’re asking! It’s so exciting to think of living your life seeing your surroundings clearly […]

How does LASIK work? This is a fair question, but no, LASIK is not a miracle, it just often seems that way. It’s science. I love explaining to my patients in terms they can understand […]

Am I a candidate for LASIK? I’ve answered this question over 100,000 times. Conversely, people will tell me they were deemed a non-candidate by their eye doctor because their eyes weren’t stable. This is generally […]

My pupils are dilated! What now? Many people have questions about their pupils before, during and after an eye exam, especially after they have been dilated. In this blog post, I will talk about the […]