Have you ever wished to have access to the most comprehensive and personalized high quality eye care? This is now possible as the Eye Center of Texas provides this and much more. Its service is enhanced by medical education and research while supporting and fostering the concept of co-managed patient care under well-trained optometrists and the clinic's doctors.



One of the most recent vision correction procedures offered in the market today is the LASIK. An acronym for Laser-Assisted in Situ Keratomileusis, LASIK, is an eye procedure that permanently changes the shape of the cornea. This procedure is primarily intended to reduce dependency on eye glasses or contact lenses. Houston Lasik Surgery delivers the latest FDA approved all-laser Intralase iLASIK as combined with the VISX Wavefront Custom Technology safely and precisely. The medical tandem of Drs. Edward Wade and Mark Mayo is recognized as the most experienced iLASIK custom procedure surgeons, performing over 40,000 procedures together. Houston Lasik Surgery offers the ultimate that technology can offer in the hands of the most reliable doctors.

Lower-order aberrations such as nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism are usually corrected with the use of glasses, contact lenses and laser eye surgery. Higher-order aberrations include contrast sensitivity, night glare, halos and other disturbances that affect the quality of vision. Lasik Surgery Houston offers the Wavefront Lasik to address both lower-order and higher-order aberrations, thereby improving the over-all vision quantity and quality of a patient. With the use of a measuring device called aberrometer, a complete aberration map of the eye is generated which guides Lasik Surgery Houston in directing laser operation during the treatment process.

iLASIK is different from Custom Lasik, not only from being a blade-free operation but also of its results which are incomparable to other LASIK procedures. Houston Lasik Surgery offers painless and fast iLASIK procedure which lets the patient remain alert and comfortable during the procedure with only a mild sedative to help the patient relax.

Not everyone is an iLASIK candidate thus Lasik Surgery Houston would need to perform several tests to determine the suitability of this procedure to a patient. This would normally include dry eye testing, visual acuity and refractive error, aberrometer readings, pupil size in low and medium light, ocular pressure, corneal topography and corneal thickness. Of course, Houston Lasik Surgery would also be interested in the general health of the eyes.

Our corneas are actually highly organized groups of cells and proteins. However, it does not contain any blood vessel that will nourish or protect it from infection. Tears and the aqueous humor that is contained in the chamber behind its serves this purpose. The cornea needs to remain transparent for proper light refraction. It also needs to be free of any cloudy or opaque areas. Houston Cornea Disease addresses the problems affecting the cornea that most of the time results in great pain, blurred vision, redness, tearing or extreme light sensitivity. Professional treatment is provided through Houston Cornea Disease by the Eye Center of Texas.