Dry eye and lasik... advice from the experts at North Shore Eye Care in Smithtown New York in Long Island

Dry eye is a eye problem that many Americans suffer from over the course of their lives. A dry eye often feels irritated and presents with foreign body sensation, tearing, red eye, blurred vision worsening over the course of the day and several other complaints. As an eye doctor and eye surgeon, the board certified eye doctors at North Shore eye Care in Smithtown new York in Long Island's Suffolk County will see dry eye on examination. We will see an altered tear film that may dry and break up quicker. We may see that the eye wets less effectively on Schirmer testing. The eyelid margins may look red and irritated and there may be signs of new vessel growth in areas that don't usually have blood vessel ingrowth such as the periphery of the cornea of eye lash margin. Dry eye can cause chronic irritation and change in architecture of the eyelid and ocular surface. Dry eye also becomes very important in the setting of cataract surgery or ilasik bladeless custom laser vision correction and laser eye surgery. As board certified surgeons at North Shore eye Care, Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Dr. Lawrence Zweibel and board eligible Dr. John Mauro are used to treating dry eye in the surgical setting as well as in the normal lifestyle setting. There are wonderful medications and supplements that help those with dry eye before, during and after laser vision correction.

The way the lasik doctors at North Shore Eye Care in Long Island New York perform lasik using only blade-free Intralasik or Intralase lasik help keep dry eye to a minium. We use all custom Customvue by lasik utilizing wavescan to make a waveprint or wavemap of your unique cornea to give you the most custom and exact lasik result possible. All of our laser eye surgery procedures have automatic centering and tracking as well as iris registration for exact centration.

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