Stick With What You Got: 5 Benefits to Eyeglasses Over LASIK

la”Throw away your glasses and contacts! You’re minutes away from perfect vision!”
While it looks very tempting, should you throw away your glasses for LASIK?

Let’s start with that 20/20 vision promise.

Visual acuity means sharpness of vision. When a person reads an eye chart, the doctor measures visual acuity by how well the little lines of letters are read. Visual acuity of at least 20/20 is considered ideal. However, in spite of what you may have read, LASIK surgery does not offer perfect visual acuity. In fact, the data in the ‘patient information booklet’ handed out to potential LASIK patients states that …read more