Are your glasses and contacts as outdated as rotary phones and $1 gasoline? Laser vision correction surgery has helped make normal vision a reality for millions of people who used to rely on glasses or contact lenses.

Advances in technology, such as IntraLase®, have improved the safety, visual outcomes, and predictability of LASIK and other eye surgeries.

LASIK surgery uses a laser to permanently change the shape of your cornea so it focuses more precisely, giving you better vision and reducing your dependence on glasses or contacts. The experts at UI Hospitals and Clinics offer you the latest technology and options for laser vision correction.

“LASIK is effective in treating myopia (nearsightedness—the image focuses in front of the retina making distant objects blurry), hyperopia (farsightedness—the image focuses beyond the retina making close objects blurry), and astigmatism (distortion of images),” said corneal surgeon Kenneth Goins, MD.