I have been told I am not a candidate for LASIK because my corneas are too thin. Does that mean I am stuck in these glasses and contact lenses?

LASIK,Refractive Surgery,Visian ICL

There are other refractive procedures that can eliminate your need for glasses even if your corneas are too thin for LASIK. During a refractive exam at Price Vision Group, many special tests are performed to ensure you are indeed a good candidate for LASIK, including corneal thickness. The average corneal thickness is between 520 micronsLeer Más

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Price Vision Group Celebrates 25 Years of LASIK

LASIK,Price Vision Group

Price Vision Group Celebrates 25 Years of LASIK, the first in the state of Indiana. January 2020 marks the 25-year anniversary of Price Vision Group providing LASIK eye surgery.  We continue to see happy patients from those early years when Dr. Price performed LASIK as part of an investigational study.  From the start, we wereLeer Más

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How Does Cornea Thickness Affect My Candidacy For LASIK?

LASIK

When a patient comes to our office for a LASIK screening, one of the first things we check for is cornea thickness. So why is cornea thickness important for LASIK? During LASIK, an excimer laser is used to remove tissue (ablation) and reshape the cornea so images can focus accurately onto the retina. Since corneal tissue is permanently…

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Why soft contact lenses do not usually provide satisfactory astigmatism correction.

Cataract Surgery,LASIK,Refractive Surgery

Soft contact lenses have an inherent problem with trying to correct astigmatism. The problem is that with each blink, contact lenses not only move up and down, they also rotate either clockwise or counter clockwise. The rotation does not matter if the correction is only spherical (meaning nearsighted or far sighted corrections). However with astigmatism,Leer Más

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