http://www.lasiksurgeryweb.com/news Read the latesty news on Lasik Eye Surgery and laser treatments, lens technology and more Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:27:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hyperopia, or hypermetropia, and most commonly called farsighted and longsighted, is another refractive imperfection (like astigmatism and nearsightedness) wherein the light entering the eye is focused slightly behind the retina, resulting in the patient having slightly blurred vision. The imperfection is caused by the eyeball being short or where the lens' ... http://www.lasiksurgeryweb.com/news/vision_terminology/115/hyperopic-vision/ A cataract is a clouding of the eye’s naturally clear lens that causes blurred vision which is not correctable by ordinary prescription glasses or contact lenses. A cataract is formed when the crystalline lens of the eye thickens, hardens, or clouds, and loses and ability to change shape. Normally, the ... http://www.lasiksurgeryweb.com/news/vision_terminology/114/cataracts/ Orthokeratology, also known as (Ortho-k), is a non-surgical technique for treating myopia, or nearsightedness, and can be a suitable alternative to lasik eye surgery that enables myopic condition patients to see better at a distance. The process uses a series of more rigid contact lenses to reshape the cornea at night ... http://www.lasiksurgeryweb.com/news/vision_terminology/113/orthokeratology-for-myopia/ Symptoms for patients that have astigmatism are in the appearance of objects which are distorted depending upon how bad the astigmatism condition is. Both closer and distant objects are distorted. The images are slightly blurred because some of the light rays are focused whilst others are not. This distortion effect ... http://www.lasiksurgeryweb.com/news/vision_terminology/112/astigmatism-of-the-eye/