After 1 year, patients had equivalent quality of vision with minimal negative outcomes whether they had their vision corrected with wavefront-guided LASIK or wavefront-guided PRK, a study in U.S.

Refractive surgery is not cosmetic surgery, although the desire to be rid of spectacles and contact lenses may play a part in patient motivation. In the military, refractive surgery is limited to PRK ...

Laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) was initially reported by Ioannis Pallikaris in 1990 and has since become an efficient and highly popular procedure in corneal refractive surgery. However, a ...

Our team of physicians are board-certified and have specialized fellowship training in cornea, cataract and refractive surgery. Together, they provide the safest and most effective procedures tailored ...

The Braverman Eye Center in Hallandale Beach, Fla., now performs custom optimized wavefront Lasik surgery. Physicians at the center use the Wavefront-Optimized LASIK for procedures, which is designed ...

Photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) and laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) were greeted as clinical breakthroughs when made available in the 1990s, but this did not stop researchers from trying to ...