my daughter's doctor advised us that she would not be a candidate for lasik
because she has lenticular myopia. i thought lasik would be possible since
the problem was with the lens and that it would reshape it. any thoughts on
this?

It's been several months now (probably approaching half a year mark) since CIBA
Vision Clear Care peroxide-based contact lens care solution became unavailable.
Stores still keep the price tags on the shelves, but it looks like it might take
quite some time before this product ...

When arthritis strikes children
at http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20060327-100328-9519r.htm

My prescription is Distance:    -2.25 left eye,  -2.25 right eye,   for
reading it is +2.00 right and left (add +2.50 for progressives).
My reading without glasses is good. My intermediate vision is poor with
or without my current glasses. Distance vision poor. What's a good

First, a question about my prescription. It is distance: -2.25 left and
right,  Reading +2.00 left and right. Is this prescription for a single
vision lens with curvature that varies or is it for a bifocal?  Second,
I've tried progressives before and had difficulty with them - ...

I want to take a minute here to reflect on the deteriorating
relationship between optometrists and ophthalmologists. Most of you
know that I have been practicing for 25 years, but I doubt if many of
you know how rapidly that things have deteriorated on the OD-MD

It was just before christmas last year when they changed, i'm
longsighted, my perscription then was L 3.25 R 3.50, these where
perfectly fine just before christmas(no problems at all), I went to the
opticions and he did a dialation and said my eyes where L5.25 R5.50, I

I renewed my drivers license today. The eye exam machine had 5 lines
down and 12 characters across. All the characters were crystal clear
except the last 4 characters on each line. I had difficulty even seeing
the last 4 on each line. I am wondering if this was a problem with the

what exactly is lenticular myopia? when a person has it what happens to the
lens that makes them nearsighted?

Ugh.
Third try at fitting intra-limbal lenses at SCCO yesterday.  First
pair, inexplicably, lacked cyl (I'm -1.75 and -2.00).  
Second pair had cyl but were, inexplicably, about 2d over-plussed.

hi! i'm in the philippines where disposable toric lenses are hard to
find. at present, i use frequency 55 toric from cooper vision, which i
have to import from the USA. as of a year ago, my prescription was pwr
-1.00 cyl -1.25 ax 90 on both eyes. having dry eyes, i can only wear my

I'm myopic (right -5.00, left -5.75).  During a routine eye examination,
my Optometrist casually remarked that I would not be a good candidate
for refractive surgery because my corneas are unusually flat.  He explained
that refractive surgery corrects myopia by flattening the ...

Still to come, in about a week or so, are several articles I wrote over
the past several years that describe the development of custom LASIK
and the upcoming application of LASEK.
For a preview, see the "Menu" of upcoming articles at:

My left eye is +5.25 and right +5.50, I got the thinnest possible
lenses they had 1.74 qith anti glare coating and also small frames, my
eyes look big in them, I tried pushing them near my face more and they
still look big, is the only way to solve this with contacts?, and do

I have been wearing plano Ciba Night & Day lenses to protect my corneas
from erosion episodes.  This is my second week with bandage lens, Day 6
with Night & Days.
I am finding that the lenses give me good crisp vision for a few days,