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Help Protect Your Eyesight

New studies have shown that while we are living longer lives due to improved health standards, our eyes are not. At birth our each of our eyes start out with around one hundred and fifty million light catching photoreceptors, but over the course of a lifetime we will end up losing up to several hundred […]

LASIK Allows Military Pilots to Fly

Despite being available for over a decade, militaries have been reluctant to accept trainees who had eliminated their need for glasses through LASIK surgery. Then the United States Air Force decided to allowed trainees to receive laser eye surgery to correct impaired vision. Now the Israel Air Force has graduated its first pilot to receive […]

One More Reason to Get Rid of Those Contact Lenses?

According to a recent article on OSN (Ocular Sugical News) SuperSite, one surgeon supports having refractive surgery over wearing contact lenses to minimize the risk of eye infections.  Dr. Minas T. Coroneo, M.D. quoted results from a study by Mathers et al stating that the risk of getting a bacterial eye infection from daily contact lens wear […]

Welcome to Our New Blog Page

Calling All Bloggers…And Everyone Else Interested in Vision Correction! Welcome to Eyes of Texas Laser Center’s new blog page.  We look forward to making this page both informative and interactive.  So, if you have topics to suggest or questions to ask about today’s  state-of-the-art vision correction procedures, please write us.  Keep in mind that while some questions may have good general […]