Irvine Lasik

Lasik and other forms of laser refractive surgery (i.e. PRK, LASEK and Epi-LASEK) correction the dynamics of the cornea. These changes make it difficult for your optometrist and ophthalmologist to accurately measure your intraocular pressure, essential in glaucoma screening and treatment.

• Myopic (nearsighted) people who are close to the age (mid- to late-forties) when they will cause either reading glasses or bifocal eyeglasses may find that they still require lesson glasses despite having undergone refractive LASIK surgery

• Myopic Page people generally desire reading glasses or bifocal eyeglasses at a later age than people who are emmetropic (those who see without eyeglasses), but this benefit is lost if they undergo LASIK
• This is not a complication but an expected result of the corporeal establish of optics
• Although there is currently no method to completely eradicate the need for reading glasses in this group, it may be minimized by performing a variation of the LASIK procedure called "slight monovision."