A recent study reports that millions of Americans are not getting the financial help required to improve their eyesight, and this involves glasses, contacts and of course, LASIK surgery. And in millions, we’re talking about around 14 million Americans (about 1 in 15) that have impaired vision - 11 million of which could correct their […]

Researchers recently concluded that both LASIK and PRK work equally well at correcting eyesight. However, LASIK eye correction surgery was found to have one key advantage: Shorter recovery time. This advantage, of course, is concomitant with less post-surgery pain, and more discomfort during the actual surgery.
But while LASIK and PRK are equally effective at improving […]

With all the recent debate on gene-doped athletes, LASIK was catapulted into the spotlight as genetic modification (GM) advocates argued that gene-doping was not that different from providing LASIK eye correction surgery to athletes. Here at Lasik World, we won’t bother arguing whether that is a tenable assertion or a groundless marketing statement, but we […]

Conventional LASIK eye correction surgery, or its updated variants - e.g. Wavefront LASIK, Epi-K - can’t handle presbyopia - the unavoidable degradation of your eye’s ability to change the shape of its lens. As a result, we suggested a couple of LASIK alternatives to meet the needs of the older generation - people who just […]

The recently released results of the Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive Health-Care Poll provide some interesting results (relative to any sort of LASIK news you’d normally read at least).
For one, we’re told that the percentage of Americans that underwent LASIK eye correction surgery has increased marginally from 2% in 2004 to 3% in 2005. This […]

Ever wondered what your eye doctor is talking about when he or she tries to sell you “customized” LASIK eye correction surgery (as opposed to standard LASIK)? Well, The Economic Times recently published a rather detailed write-up on the virtues of Custom LASIK.
Custom LASIK is touted of being able to handle the higher-order aberrations that […]

In a news article where an insurance company describes how health insurance has become increasingly expensive and unaffordable, a conjecture that the lack of insurance coverage for LASIK caused LASIK prices to fall is present.
The Chief Marketing Officer of PCI Insurance Inc. argues that insurance coverage of medical treatments removes the “…consumer choice and the […]

Not many people have much knowledge of the principles behind Lasik eye correction surgery. The only thing that most people know is that Lasik removes the need for you to wear glasses or contacts, even though the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has an entire web site devoted to Lasik.
But is that surprising? I […]