Category: LASIK
What are the options for vision correction after 40?
Posted by: Clear Vision Cataract & LASIK Center
You’ve had it! Enough of your glasses or contacts already! For more than 30 years you’ve been dealing with the daily grind of contact lens maintenance, or wiping the fog off your glasses on a cold morning. Or perhaps hitting 40 has resulted in glasses for the first time – reading glasses (arms getting too…
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What is the best LASIK alternative?
Posted by: Clear Vision Cataract & LASIK Center
This article discusses some vision correction options that may benefit you, even if you aren’t a candidate for LASIK.
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What is the recovery like with LASIK?
Posted by: Clear Vision Cataract & LASIK Center
LASIK Recovery
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Can you have LASIK after Cataract Surgery?
Posted by: Clear Vision Cataract & LASIK Center
What is LASIK and am I a Candidate? The most commonly performed vision-correcting procedure in the world is laser in-situ keratomileusis (LASIK). LASIK uses laser energy to precisely reshape the surface of the eye to correct visual errors such as myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness), and astigmatism. In a qualified candidate, modern LASIK procedures are safe…
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Michigan Ophthalmology is the Clear Vision Center!
Posted by: Clear Vision Cataract & LASIK Center
In early 2019, we officially opened Michigan Ophthalmology and since then have helped thousands achieve their vision goals while managing their medical eye conditions. Over the past three years, as we’ve experienced a surge in demand for our custom surgical services. To accommodate this demand, we recently expanded on-site with the building of our Clear…
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Our Patient-Centered Approach to Vision Correction
Posted by: Clear Vision Cataract & LASIK Center
At Clear Vision Center (now the Clear Vision Center), we are a patient-centered (not procedure-centered) practice. What’s the difference? At a procedure-centered practice, chances are you’ll feel like you’re on an assembly line conveyor belt, moving from one technician to another, then a scheduler, and (maybe) a doctor at the very end. Their entire process…
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What is Custom Lens Replacement (CLR)?
Posted by: Clear Vision Cataract & LASIK Center
Many active people in their 40s and 50s come to us for a consultation to address their loss of near vision, or what is known as presbyopia. This gradual degradation in near vision is a normal aging process of the eye’s natural lens, but the resulting lens dysfunction results in millions of people each year…
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Does LASIK correct near vision?
Posted by: Clear Vision Cataract & LASIK Center
We’ve all seen it: someone holding an object FURTHER away just to read what is written on it? Perhaps you are doing this yourself? I am often presented with patients who are annoyed by this loss of near or reading vision that comes with age, or as we call it, presbyopia. This common condition affecting…
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LASIK Alternatives for Vision Correction
Posted by: Clear Vision Cataract & LASIK Center
With the recent FDA approvals of the Vuity eye drop for presbyopia and the EVO Visian ICL, patients have even more options for reducing their dependence on glasses and contacts. Contact lens intolerance can cause significant chronic eye dryness and irritation, but many patients are still hesitant to proceed with laser vision correction such as…
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Does LASIK Wear Off?
Posted by: Clear Vision Cataract & LASIK Center
Does LASIK Wear Off? This is a common question we hear from patients who are experiencing blurring of their near vision many years after having laser vision correction (LVC) such PRK, LASIK, or SMILE. An explanation follows below, but the short answer is no, the LASIK did not wear off! Laser vision procedures alter the…
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