LASIK is a great option to consider if you want to improve your overall vision without the need for contact lenses or eye glasses. Since it is a surgery, patients will need to follow certain instructions in the lead up to surgery, which we'd like to look at briefly right now.

As with any kind of surgery, LASIK carries with it a few risks and potential complications. In order to give you realistic expectations about the surgery and what it entails, we'd like to go over some of these risks briefly right now.

Refractive errors are common vision issues that many people face, yet there are a number of misconceptions concerning their causes and how they can be treated. Let's look into some of the basics about refractive errors right now.

Higher order aberrations and lower order aberrations both refer to vision imperfections caused by flaws in the shape of the cornea. We'd like to look at both in a little more detail right now and then discuss how they can be addressed through advanced laser vision correction.

Custom LASIK surgery offers many major advantages over traditional LASIK surgery of the past. By addressing both higher order aberrations and lower order aberrations, custom LASIK allows patients to see even clearer than they did before.

For many of our patients in Portland, common side effects of LASIK and custom LASIK are temporary and include dry eyes, halos, and glare.