Lets face the facts that the majority of people who elect to have laser eye surgery don’t do so for any medical reason at all. Some may say they are doing it because they want to eliminate the effects of an astigmatism or to correct nearsightedness or farsightedness. And those are the three conditions that laser eye surgery procedures were developed to correct and are the basic reasons to decide to go under the knife of light!
But the real reason most people decide to spend their own money for an elective surgical procedure like laser eye surgery is comfort and vanity. Both excellent reasons that scream out; get these glasses off my face! If you’ve had glasses for any time you have probably grown to love them, or at least hate them a lot less. If you need to wear your glasses all the time, then you might not run so fast to the laser eye surgery vending machine location just to loose the eyeware.
Wearing glasses becomes so commonplace for some, that they would feel incomplete without them. Contact lenses wearers are in a different situation. They have lost the dependence on a large plastic viewing apparatus that sits on the end of their nose, and replaced it with a routine that keeps them glasses free, but ties them to the daily or weekly routine of chemical cleaners and sanitizing solutions. They are the ideal candidates for laser eye surgery.