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Lasik eye surgery is where you can have your eyesight surgically enhanced or corrected using laser surgery. Most adults rely on their eyesight more than any other sense and the types of deterioration that can be suffered from are many and varied. Thankfully laser surgery can correct such problems as short and long sightedness, astigmatism, presbyopia and cataracts.

People with short sightedness can see things at short distances but have challenges seeing things further away. Similarly people with long sightedness are fine with long distance but have difficulty seeing things a short distance away. Both these problems are caused by the lens and the cornea being either too strong or too weak and are correctable by using Lasik eye surgery.

Astigmatism is where you are both short and long sighted at the same time and the lens throws images both in front of and behind the retina at the same time causing constant blurring.

Presbyopia is the natural aging process that occurs in all eyes. How many people do you know that once they reach their early forties or so, need to look at some kind of reading glasses as they have a challenge focusing? With age the lens in your eye becomes less and less flexible. This condition is usually picked up as you will experience the need to hold things further and further away from your eyes in order to read it.

Cataracts are usually suffered by people over the age of 55. In fact 60% of those over the age of 65 suffer from this condition. Cataracts result from the natural break down of the protein structure which forms the lens causing the lens to become cloudy and difficult to see from. Once the lens becomes cloudy, the light cannot enter the eye and vision becomes very blurred.

All of the above conditions can be treated simply with Lasik eye surgery, all you need to do now is find the right provider to suit your needs.