Laser vision correction: Helping you maintain the best vision possible

If you’re like most people, you’re not entirely happy with wearing lenses to correct your vision. Maybe it’s the way your glasses steam up when you come inside in winter. Perhaps it’s switching back and forth from regular glasses to sunglasses in summer, straining to read your alarm clock when you wake in the morning, or getting dust under a contact lens at just the wrong moment. Maybe lenses are even limiting your choice of career, or the sport you play.

Whatever the problems with glasses or contact lenses, refractive surgery offers an alternative that could help you see better without them.

LASIK is one form of refractive eye surgery. Refractive surgery corrects your vision by changing the shape of the cornea, the transparent layer that covers the outer surface of the eye.

The new UW Health LASIK Eye Surgery Clinic is located at 2349 Deming Way in Middleton. Open since December 2023, this surgical clinic is in the same building as our Deming Way Eye Care Clinic and includes the most advanced laser technology available. It also has personalized treatment options that go beyond LASIK and the convenience of having all your pre- and post-op appointments in the same place as you have your eye surgery.

The eye functions like a camera. Light comes in through the cornea, which focuses the light rays as they pass through the pupil and the lens. The iris, which surrounds the pupil, works like a camera shutter and controls the amount of light that enters the eye. In normal eyes, the cornea and lens bend light so that it focuses directly on the retina, the light sensitive tissue in the back of the eye. The retina changes light into electrical impulses that travel via the optic nerve to the brain.

Poor vision results when the cornea and the lens focus light too far in front of or behind the retina. Corrective lenses work by allowing the light to focus directly on the retina.

Refractive surgery can help with nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism.