If you laser your cornea to a different shape, it's not going to regress back to the old shape it was in because they actually remove layers of the cornea and they're gone. And so why does it not work for some people? Or can your body grow it back to whatever bad shape it was to begin with? No. It doesn't hurt. You put a little eye drop on there and it numbs it so it'll burn for like five seconds when you put the numbing drop on that doesn't hurt at all. Most of it is the change in the lens inside of your eye, the cornea inside the eye.
75% of adult Americans have wonky vision of some kind, your host included. Longtime pal and real-life eye surgeon, Dr. Reid Wainess answers all the questions that you never bring up during appointments. He and Alie chat about how eyes are just little cameras in your skull, glasses vs. contacts, Lasik, why we cry, some boggling ER stories, how marijuana effects eyeballs, floaters, cataracts, eye color, dogs in goggles and more. Also: what happens if you choke under pressure and pick the wrong options in an eye exam? HOW SCREWED ARE YOU?
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If you're in LA and and want Dr. Wainess to be your eye doc: 1-800-898-2020
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