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“What I Wish I’d Known About Cataract Surgery”: A Doctor Details What Patients Should Know About a Common Procedure

What are the signs that show I need cataract surgery? “There are several key signs that someone may need cataract surgery,” ...
Long Island Press

Laser Eye Surgery to Correct Vision: Is It Worth The Cost?

If you wear glasses or contact lenses, you may have considered laser eye surgery to correct your vision. Over the last 25 years, millions of Americans have had LASIK (laser-assisted in situ ...
Medindia on MSN

Laser Photocoagulation Helps Protect Vision from Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Laser photocoagulation is a type of laser eye surgery. It is used to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD) (1). AMD ...
KSL

Should nonmedical doctors perform laser eye surgery? Bill would expand scope of optometrists

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Science Daily

Eye Doctor Says Laser Surgery Safer Than Contacts

Traditional assumptions have held that contact lenses are safer than laser surgery to correct vision problems. Now, an Oregon Health & Science University Casey Eye Institute physician, comparing data ...
NPR

Which type of eye doctor do you need? Optometrists and ophthalmologists face off

This past November, a patient asked optometrist Kaitlin Soracco to remove a bulge of skin on her eyelid. Such skin tags can be excised right there in the office using procedures Soracco studied and ...