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The Problem Vision correction procedures may reduce or eliminate the need for glasses or corrective lenses—but for some people, the surgery feels too risky. The Solution Ophthalmologists need to explain the expected advantages, disadvantages, outcomes, risks, and benefits of laser vision correction...

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Your patient is a 50-year-old woman, and this is her first consultation with you. She had LASIK in her 30s and now wears reading glasses for presbyopia. You learn that cataracts and glaucoma run in her family. She says, “I wish I didn’t need reading glasses. Are there any options for me?” Most...

Massachusetts Eye and Ear is the primary teaching hospital affiliate of Harvard Medical School and an international leader in ophthalmology. Members of the Cornea and Refractive Surgery Service have helped to pioneer many of the developments in laser vision correction by actively participating in...