LASIK Research: What It Is and What It Means

[link pid=”41″][/link] So you’ve been considering LASIK and in the course of your research you keep coming across the results of clinical studies. What are those?  Do they matter?  Should you pay attention to them? In a word – yes! Clinical studies, in a nutshell, are how we know what we know about LASIK and […]

Carolina EyeCare Research Center Authors Latest Global LASIK Scientific Literature Review

In 2009, our team at the [link pid=”37″]Carolina EyeCare Research Center[/link] took on the enormous task of the first global [link pid=”41″]LASIK[/link] scientific literature review – “LASIK World Literature Review – Quality of Life and Patient Satisfaction” – which compiled more than 2,900 peer-reviewed papers on LASIK published between 1988 and 2008. At that time, […]

A LASIK Treatment, From Start to Finish

As an ophthalmologist who performs [link pid=”41″]LASIK[/link] here in Charleston, South Carolina, one of my favorite questions to ask patients is, “When was the last time you went without glasses?” I often encounter a long pause as patients mentally rewind to a time — years or even decades earlier — when clear vision without corrective lenses […]