The Eye Care Blog

Researchers in California and Florida lead by Andrew I. Caster, MD brings good news for patients with corneal thickness of 500 µm or less who are due for LASIK surgery.

LASIK eye surgery is typically carried out with Excimer laser. Excimer lasers are extremely precise, but they are also costly and expensive to maintain, which primarily accounts for the high cost of LASIK surgery.

University of California eye researcher Dr. Bill Stell, chair of Vision Quest Conference, said “Research is progressing rapidly in the areas of gene therapy, stem cell research and encapsulated cell technology.” He added, “Some types of blindness could be prevented and some vision could be restored to the blind within five, 10 or 15 years”. [...]