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When LASIK surgery was first introduced, many patients felt wary about claims of improved vision without the use of corrective lenses. It was one of those things that seemed too good to be true. However, time has proven that LASIK surgery can successfully correct vision impairment, reducing a patient’s dependency on corrective eye wear, and, in some cases, freeing them from that need all together. As LASIK has proven a success, it has grown in popularity. In fact, LASIK is now performed on nearly a...Read More

In recent years, LASIK has become one of the most popular and common options for patients who suffer from various forms of vision impairment. Primarily, patients know that LASIK can reduce or eliminate the need for prescriptive lenses for those who suffer from the refractive errors that result in nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism. While this is the primary goal of LASIK, the advanced technology of custom LASIK offers patients an even greater degree of vision improvement. Using wavefront...Read More

Whether you suffer from nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism, laser eye surgery can offer long-lasting vision correction to improve your overall quality of life. Namely, LASIK is considered a safe and effective treatment that allows a majority of patients to see clearlywithout corrective lenses after only one brief procedure. By creating a thin corneal flap along the eye’s surface and reshaping the underlying corneal tissue, LASIK gives patients permanently enhanced vision with few...Read More

Are you interested in bidding farewell to your glasses or contact lenses, but are also hesitant to undergo LASIK because it isn’t covered by your health insurance plan? Would you be more likely to pursue high-quality, custom LASIK if you could pay for it without having to owe money to your credit card company or other third-party lender? If so, the seasoned eye care professionals of North County Laser Eye Associates has a potentially ideal solution to recommend to you: a Flexible Spending Account, or...Read More

At North County Laser Eye Associates, your safety, comfort, and satisfaction are our foremost concerns. As a result, we go above and beyond accepted safety and sterilization protocols to ensure that your LASIK experience is positive, from the moment you step into our office to the moment that you wake up without glasses and see the alarm clock clearly for the first time.

Nevertheless, despite our dedication to ensuring your safety and our skilled eye surgeons insistence on using only the most...Read More

At North County Laser Eye Associates, we invest in the most advanced and effective technologies to ensure that we are able to produce LASIK results of the very highest standard. At our laser eye surgery center in Carlsbad, VISX Iris Registration is one of the most important pieces in the chain of technology that allows us to provide the safest, most comfortable, and most ultimately satisfying LASIK experience possible to our valued patients.

The iris of your eye...Read More

Intraocular lenses, or IOLs, are among the most impressive technological advancements in the history of vision care, giving people who suffer from cataracts the opportunity not only to restore their vision, but to see more clearly – in some cases, without any need for glasses or contact lenses – than they have in years. However, a technology can only be as effective as the doctors using it. At North County Laser Eye Associates, our world-class laser eye surgery center in Carlsbad, the...Read More

For more than 150 years, the Bausch & Lomb brand has represented the absolute state of the art in quality eye care and vision restoration technology. While North County Laser Eye Associates hasn’t been around quite that long, our name is also synonymous with exceptional eye care and vision restoration. This is why we are extremely proud to introduce to our practice in Carlsbad the new Bausch & Lomb VICTUS femtosecond laser platform. Cataract surgery can now be performed with unrivaled...Read More

At the laser eye surgery practice of Dr. Paul H. Chen, North County Laser Eye Associates, we have always been devoted to using the most advanced technologies and techniques to produce results of the highest standard for our valued patients. As part of this dedication to the safety, comfort, and satisfaction of our patients, we are extremely pleased to be able to offer laser cataract surgery using the revolutionary LenSx system. At our eye care center in Carlsbad, LenSx surgery provides the most precise and...Read More

From its inception, LASIK has been one of the safest and most dependable surgeries in all of medicine. Over time, advancements in technology and techniques have made it possible to achieve superior outcomes with minimal risk of undesirable side effects.

Of course, this does not mean that LASIK is a risk-free procedure. Indeed, every surgery – laser eye surgery and otherwise – carries with it some degree of risk. During consultations with Dr. Chen at his office in San Diego, LASIK risks...Read More