Vision for Life
Vision is often hailed as our “Windows to the World”. In every sense of the metaphor, this is absolutely true. So when considering your options for Vision Correction surgery, both you and your surgeon will be thinking about solutions for a lifetime.
Understanding no single Vision Correction procedure corrects for a lifetime of Visual Growth, understand what options are available at each “Stage” of Visual Growth will guide your decision.
Refractive Surgery is the surgical correction of nearsightedness (myopia), farsightedness (hyperopia), presbyopia (reading glasses) and/or astigmatism (imperfect surface). The most commonly performed type of refractive surgery in the world is called LASIK (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis) where a refractive surgeon, a Medical Doctor (MD) and Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (DO), use an excimer laser to reshape the curvature of the cornea to eliminate to refractive error causing the nearsightedness, farsightedness, presbyopia and/or astigmatism.
Refractive Surgery is an excellent option for people who want to reduce to eliminate their dependency on glasses and contact lenses.
Everyone understands that a person’s visual needs change as our eyes mature. What people sometimes do not realize is that vision continues to develop since the day we are born. We quantify this “Visual Development” in four (4) stages and three (3) milestones.
Understanding the Four Stages of Visual Development and the visual changes accompanying each stage should assist you in making better-informed Vision Correction choices at each stage in your Visual Development.
The Three Milestones in Visual Development align with stages 2, 3 and 4 and direct the discussion about Vision Correction procedures for each stage.
It’s safe to say, that if you happen to be in the crowd that wears glasses, most of us receive our first pair of glasses in our preteen years. Blame it on all the reading you had to do for English Lit, or from staring at your phone too much. Some even blame it on your parent’s genes. But one thing remains the same, once we get a eyeglass prescription, we start to think about how we can get rid of it!
Although glasses and contacts may be exciting for some, you’re likely reading this because some part of you wants to get rid of those unwanted frames or lenses once and for all.
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