Patient Education

Presbyopia is an age-related eye condition, which gradually weakens the eye’s ability to focus at near, making reading and other near-focused tasks difficult. Common treatments for presbyopia include eyeglasses, contact lenses or laser vision corrective surgery. A newer way to treat presbyopia is with

A laser is an intense beam of light. In surgery, one type of laser can be used to create heat energy, and another can be used to cut or sculpt. Ophthalmologists often use lasers in surgery to treat certain eye problems, including glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, refractive errors,

LASIK is a type of refractive surgery. With this outpatient procedure, a laser is used to reshape your cornea, improving how light rays are focused in the eye. LASIK is used to treat myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness) and astigmatism. It cannot correct presbyopia, the normal loss of

PRK is a type of refractive surgery. With this outpatient procedure, a laser is used to reshape your cornea, improving how light rays are focused in the eye. PRK is used to treat myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness) and astigmatism. It cannot correct presbyopia, the normal loss of close-up

Small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) is a newer type of refractive surgery. With this outpatient procedure, a laser is used to create a disc of corneal tissue. The disc is removed to reshape your cornea and improve how light rays are focused in the eye. SMILE is FDA-approved to treat mild nearsightedness

Wavefront-guided LASIK (or custom LASIK) is a type of refractive surgery. With this outpatient procedure, a laser is used to reshape your cornea, improving how light rays are focused in the eye. A device called a wavefront scanner creates a very detailed map of the cornea. This map is programmed into