LASIK & Contact Lenses, Which Is Right For You? Vision Performance

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LASIK & Contact Lenses, Which Is Right For You?

Vision Performance

There is little doubt that wearing glasses is not the optimal form of vision correction when it comes to vision performance. Contact lenses and LASIK both will correct your vision and eliminate a number of vision performance related issues induced by eyeglass correction.

For example, nearsighted patients who wear eyeglass lenses to correct their myopia are subject to an effect called minification. Minification is the optical effect that glasses produce whereby objects actually appear smaller than they are. This may make them also appear farther away to some patients. While patients may adapt to this effect, it often creates a distorted sense of depth perception.

This can be troubling for some patients who have occupations that require a good sense of depth perception. Tasks like operating heavy equipment or even other types of machinery can be a challenge with the minification effect. Think about the safety professional such as a police officer or firefighter who can't properly judge distances! Further, eyeglasses can compromise vision performance because they distort your peripheral vision. Depending on the frame you wear, eyeglasses can actually block your peripheral vision. You can imagine that the minification effect and distortion or blocking of your peripheral vision can wreak havoc on your performance if you play any type of sport! For this reason, contact lenses and LASIK will provide superior visual performance.

However, which option, contact lenses or LASIK provides better vision performance? The answer is that both contact lenses and LASIK eliminate the effect of minification and peripheral distortion because both contact lens correction and LASIK create their optical effect right at or on the surface of your eye, rather than in a plane in front of your eye-on your nose-as eyeglasses do. So, when we consider these aspects of vision performance, there is little if any difference between contact lenses and LASIK.

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LASIK & Contact Lenses, Which Is Right For You?

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Consumer and understand LASIK Vision Correction