In a study that may change how surgeons evaluate candidates for LASIK and other elective surgery in the future, researchers Jennifer Morse, MD, Steven C. Schallhorn, MD, and David J. Tanzer, MD are finding that a patient's personality may influence their overall satisfaction and visual quality of life after refractive surgery.

Pulses of light clean key membrane to prevent the onset of macular degeneration

Denis Campbell, health correspondent

The Observer, Sunday 5 July 2009

Millions of people could have their eyesight saved thanks to ground-breaking laser treatment that has

Preliminary results of a study of U.S. Navy aviators receiving all-laser iLASIK treatment show 97 percent of eyes attain 20/20 or better uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) the day after surgery and 100 percent have 20/20 or better UCVA one week after surgery.

The study is investigating the effect of a new fifth-generation

Perfect Vision attended a national staff training conference last weekend in the Barossa valley. The conference was run by Laser Sight Centres (LSC), one of the largest vision correction networks in Australia, and led by Yvonne Hutchins, National Manager of LSC and Anna Ocysek, Laser Sight’s Optometry

Worldwide, 95.4% of LASIK patients are very satisfied with their results after surgery. The highly reliable analysis performed by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive surgery (ASCRS), considers the patient’s overall satisfaction rather than their visual outcome. The peer-reviewed meta-analysis

Over eighteen days on the Gold Coast in January 2009, the Conrad Jupiters Magic Millions Carnival will boast over 40 events.

Clinical data have not yet been released, but one ophthalmologist is reporting superior laboratory results with the lens.

A multifocal IOL enhanced with an aspheric surface is demonstrating superiority over the standard version in laboratory experiments and early clinical results, according to Dr. Moshegov.

Laser eye surgery is very good at treating short-sightedness, long sightedness and astigmatism. This allows many patietns, particularly those under the age of 40 years, to have perfect vision without glasses.

The dilemma is with that large group of people who have a type of long-sighted called presbyopia.

For many years it has been said that the eyes need to be 'stable' before laser eye surgery can be performed. For this reason the minimum age requirement was around 20 years and the spectacle prescription had to be the same for at least 12 months. This way of thinking is old fashioned. In some centres, even small children undergo LASIK in special circumstances.

Perfect Vision now offers refractive surgery to any patient over the age of 18 years, even if the spectacle prescription is still changing.