Many Kansas City residents who are candidates for LASIK tell their ophthalmologist that they are worried about having a laser near their eyes. This is understandable: we are rightly protective of our eyes. But exciting new LASIK technology in Kansas City is making the procedure even simpler, and the hands of a skilled ophthalmologist with […]

Side-effects from LASIK are rare, and most are temporary. Your Kansas City eye doctor at Silverstein Eye Centers will thoroughly review potential side-effects with you during your LASIK consultation. Like any surgical procedure, LASIK comes with some risks, but it also has a high rate of success with minimal instances of complications.

LASIK laser vision correction is one of the marvels of modern medicine. With just one short procedure, people who have long relied on glasses and contacts can suddenly be glasses and contacts free for decades. If you’ve looked at the procedure and you think it might be for you, you should take a moment to […]

LASIK and PRK are two types of laser vision correction. They share many of the same characteristics but with one vital difference. LASIK and PRK operate on the same basic principles of laser vision correction. Because the shape of the cornea remains fixed for most people once it achieves its final shape in your late […]

Custom LASIK is a little bit of a silly name because of course all LASIK procedures are customized to your eyes and your particular vision problems. LASIK is always designed to correct your particular vision problems, but custom LASIK is designed to correct different types of vision problems.

Choosing the right doctor for your laser eye surgery in Kansas City can seem like an overwhelming task. At Silverstein Eye Centers, we aim to make choosing a LASIK surgeon easier by providing complete, easily accessible information about our practice, technology, and doctors on our website. In general, the three primary areas you should concentrate […]

The goal of refractive surgery is to reduce your dependency on glasses and contact lenses. With this goal in mind, you should think of LASIK as improving vision, not necessarily as achieving perfect vision.

If you are nearsighted, farsighted or have astigmatism, you may be a good LASIK candidate. In addition to those vision disorders, factors influencing LASIK candidacy include: 18 years of age Stable prescription for at least one year No eye infections for the past year Not pregnant or breastfeeding No autoimmune diseases Free from severe dry […]

Custom LASIK differs slightly from traditional LASIK in the use of wavefront technology. Wavefront is used to measure how light travels through your eyes and produce a digital, 3-D map of your eye. This map highlights areas of distortion—or aberrations—in your eye.

Due in part to the wavefront technology used in custom LASIK procedures to create a digital, 3-D map of your eye, custom LASIK is typically more expensive than traditional LASIK surgery.

Although the results of LASIK surgery can be dramatic, and the procedure itself enjoys a success rate of more than 95 percent, not everyone is a candidate for LASIK. LASIK is used to correct three vision problems: Myopia (nearsightedness) Hyperopia (farsightedness) Astigmatism

The advertisements are on the radio, and they are all over the television. In fact, everywhere you go it seems you hear about LASIK, the new laser vision ion surgery that has freed so many people from their glasses and contacts. Laser in Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK) is a surgical technique that uses an examiner laser […]