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86. LASIK Survey: Big Positive! - Your Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, Roxboro LASIK Surgeons
The American Refractive Surgery Council (ARSC) just concluded a laser-vision-correction survey in June, showing the following results from 500 LASIK patients in America: * 38 percent wanted to have LASIK because they were concerned about not being able to find their eyeglasses during an emergency. (Image source: http://www.pcgagencies.com/earthquake/default.aspx.) * 51 percent were contact-lens wearers who were worried about getting an eye infection or the contact lenses damaging their eyes. * 85...
87. LASIK to the Rescue for Atlanta Braves!
Good news for Atlanta Braves fans! The Braves have just announced that their second baseman Dan Uggla is being put on the disabled list so he can have LASIK surgery to correct his astigmatism. The flipside, of course, is that this may spell bad news for Braves’ opponents if Uggla’s results are anything like those leading to the famed post-LASIK hitting performance of San Francisco Giants’ Pablo Sandoval, after he’d...
88. LASIK Turkey Part 1 - Your Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, Roxboro LASIK Surgeons
Well, we’re about ten months early for Thanksgiving but doesn’t it feel good looking ahead to that day any time of the year? Continuing with our theme of LASIK, and the heart of LASIK, the excimer laser, we are invoking that favorite post-Halloween and pre-Christmas beloved day this week, in the middle of January! And no that’s not a turkey eye in the image above. But the eye has everything...
89. LASIK Turkey, Part 2 - Your Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, Roxboro LASIK Surgeons
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 the excimer laser by etching “IBM” onto a strand of human hair – without burning...
90. LASIK Unique - Your Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, Roxboro LASIK Surgeons
Everybody has been made to feel special at one time or another, and some of us more times than others! But let’s talk about that special feeling of someone caring for us, caring about us when it comes to discussing whether LASIK is the best vision-correction method to treat our unique eyes and vision. First let’s look at a temporary situation. If you have pink eye, for example, obviously let’s get...