Laser Eye Surgery Has Kept Pace with Technology
While there are some exceptions, most men and women have a much more appealing look about themselves when their face isn’t clouded by a set of glasses frames. That vain attitude is the reason the contact lens field grew past the old hard rigid and expensive contact lenses in rapid succession. Today we even have Toric contact lenses for people with severe astigmatism, something that was unheard of in the early days of contacts.
But even easy to use and now daily disposable contact lenses have given way to a one time procedure that will eliminate the need for prescription glasses in almost 95% of cases. Laser eye surgery has opened up a glasses-less world for millions of people worldwide and with new advances it’s almost as common as shopping mall based eye glasses and lens fitters.
Within the field of, you’ll also find major advances in just the past decade. Originally, laser eye surgery could eliminate the need for corrective lenses for only those candidates who were either nearsighted or farsighted. With computer aided cornea mapping, laser eye surgery can now provide relief for most people with astigmatism as well, since precision and tolerances of the laser scalpel have been improved. It’s like comparing your home telescope to the Hubble space telescope.