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There is probably nothing to be done if your aim is to achieve "perfect eye care health," in 2021 or in any other year. Age and environment are always going to compromise one's vision through their cumulative and progressive effects over time. Taking care to use proper...

There is a better way to think about the issue of "how bad can astigmatism and/or myopia (shortsightedness) be?" The median (half being worse and half being better) degree of myopia in North America is about -3 Diopters. [This is based on contact lens sales.] High myopia...

The rate of success in LASIK is unprecedented as a surgical procedure. In the right hands, with a properly selected patient, and using the best equipment…LASIK is extremely safe and highly effective as has been shown in hundreds of peer-reviewed studies across the...

No. But there are indeed many connections between the eye and our hair & fingernails. The cornea of the eye is made of something almost identical to the keratin that is the basic "stuff" of hair and fingernails. In fact, the "k" in LASIK stands...

As a cataract and lens implant surgeon with over 30 years' experience, I would say "no." We had a femtosecond laser for doing FLACS (femto laser assisted cataract surgery) and stopped using it or recommending it to patients. We found there were no (zero) benefits over...

The phrase "Lazy Eye" is used informally to refer to two different things medically: 1) eyes that look in different directions (strabismus), and 2) the inability to fully correct an eye to 20/20 (amblyopia) with a spectacle or contact lens despite no apparent anatomical...

Nearsightedness (myopia) is a "refractive error" of the eye where the default focal point is abnormally close. Depending on how much myopia you have, distance vision can be anywhere from mildly to severely blurred. Farsightedness is where your vision is better at a...

Usually the parents of a child can tell by comparison to other children if there might be a vision problem. For most myopic (nearsighted) people, the condition does not start to develop until they are at the age to enter elementary school. Public health nurses are often...