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Why You And Everybody Else Wants Laser Eye Surgery

2:40AM February 27, 2010 | Mark Wilson

I never knew why Brian Lam wanted lasik so badly. He just called it “Godzilla protection”. More »


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Replacement Lenses Aren’t Just For Cataracts Anymore

1:00PM December 6, 2009 | Chris Jacob

As someone who’s been nearsighted since I was a kid, I’m loving the new developments in intraocular lenses. There’s a new procedure gaining popularity that could give me super vision, without the irreversibility of LASIK. More »


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Forget Designer Purses, I Want Some Designer Eyeballs

1:00PM October 7, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

LASIK’s been around a while, and somehow it was only a matter of time before designer vision, corneas custom-tailored to lifestyle and career, started to turn common. Could laser eye surgery will become the new graduation boob job? More »


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Video: What LASIK Really Feels Like

5:00AM September 19, 2008 | Brian Lam

The nurse applied a series of numbing drops to my eyeball, each stronger than the previous. The doctor clamped my lids back with a metal tool. I felt a bracket hold my eye down and someone in the operating room gave the order, “Suction.”

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