About LASIK
LASIK is a procedure that can help reduce or eliminate your need for glasses and contacts and is one of the most popular forms of vision correction due to its accuracy, safety, and quick recovery. Both eyes are treated on the same day, the entire process takes just minutes, and most patients can resume normal activities as soon as the next day!
Understanding Your Vision
LASIK has been approved by the FDA to treat a wide range of prescriptions including:
Nearsightedness – cornea is too curved or eye is too long, causing light to focus in front of the retina, resulting in blurry close vision and sometimes blurry distance vision as well.
Farsightedness – cornea is too flat or eye is too short, causing light to focus beyond the retina, resulting in blurry close vision and sometimes blurry distance vision as well.
Astigmatism – cornea is shaped like a football, rather than round like a basketball, causing the light to focus in more than one point on the retina, resulting in blurry and distorted vision.
Contacts vs. LASIK
Did you know? Eye infections account for about 1 million doctor visits a year in the U.S. due to improper contact lenses care. This leads to pain, inflammation, scarring, vision disturbances, and even permanent vision loss.
Wearing contacts daily just might be a bigger risk than having your vision corrected with LASIK. In fact, some think that LASIK may be up to 5 times safer than contacts.* But only if it’s done on the right eyes by the right doctor, like our experienced team of surgeons at Ocala Eye.
Why Choose Ocala Eye For LASIK?
Ocala Eye is the area’s leader in not just LASIK, but all vision correction surgeries. We provide a range of procedures including RLE, PRK and Advanced Cataract Surgery. More patients have trusted us with their laser and lens-based vision correction procedure than any other practice in North Central Florida.
In fact, due to our wide range of experience in vision correction surgery, other eye care practices have referred patients to us for such procedures as cataract surgery after radial keratotomy, hexagonal keratotomy, and penetrating keratoplasty, as well as LASIK or PRK enhancement after cataract surgery. Almost as important as who is performing your procedure is where your procedure is performed. The Ocala Eye Surgery Center, wholly owned by the partners of Ocala Eye, is the area’s largest stand-alone ambulatory surgery center dedicated exclusively to surgery of the eye.
Certified by the AAAHC, the Ocala Eye Surgery Center has been nationally recognized as a center of excellence. The staff has decades of experience working in the eye care field so you can be sure that, in addition to the expertise of your surgeon, the ancillary employees are experts in eye surgery as well.
