Why Choose Laser Eye Surgery?
Regardless of its price, laser eye surgery is a smart investment for anyone who’s spent their whole life grappling with switching contacts, improving their prescription, and bitterly waiting the two agonizing, headache-y weeks until their new frames arrive. Laser eye surgery is also an invaluable option for the vision impaired who are approaching old age; there’s nothing worse than waiting your entire life for retirement only to find that your vision is irreparably damaged. For those with macular degeneration, they live every day like the protagonist of the Twilight Zone episode “Time Enough At Last” episode: he finds he’s finally stumbled upon an alternate world where he can read all of his favorite books, only to crack his reading glasses. While diabetes complications (including glaucoma) are the leading cause of blindness overall, the leading cause of blindness for adults approaching old age (specifically those in their 60s) is macular degeneration. New techniques, like short pulse