LASIK Surgery is a modern-day miracle for many people suffering from impaired vision. Preparing for LASIK surgery can help ensure that your experience is comfortable, your surgery is successful, and your recovery goes smoothly. 

Plan Well in Advance

1. Call your insurance company – Check to see what, if anything, your medical insurance will cover. Most insurers consider LASIK surgery to be elective.

Although SilkVision does not currently have an optical shop or deal in glasses on a regular basis, we understand that knowing when you need new glasses is not always easy, and we love to help inform our readers. Your glasses may be comfortable, stylish, and part of your whole identity.  But changes in your vision are hard to detect, and just because you can see through your glasses does not mean they provide an optimum viewing experience for long-term eye health.  So whether you notice symptoms or not, you may need new glasses asap.  Here a

If you haven’t seen the headlines already, let us tell you the good news: there is a new FDA-approved eye drop that replaces the need for reading glasses. Optometrists and ophthalmologists across the country have seen an astounding interest in these eye drops from their patients. Our hope for this blog post is to answer some of your top questions such as how the eye drops work, what conditions they can help treat, and who is eligible for a prescription.

According to the Vision Council, a nonprofit trade association for optical equipment manufacturers and suppliers, just about 75% of adults use some sort of vision correction, meaning glasses or contacts. That’s a staggering number of adults requiring regular eye prescriptions.

Ophthalmology is a unique and ever evolving field of medicine. The doctors that practice this - ophthalmologists - can encounter a wide variety of circumstances in their day. For anyone interested in entering the field or if you’re just curious about what your doctor does all day, we asked our center founder, Dr. Wesam Silk, to take us through a typical day in the life of an ophthalmologist.

Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that can damage the eye’s optic nerve and result in vision loss and blindness. It is damaged through constant pressure building up in the eye through poor fluid drainage. This pressure is referred to as ocular hypertension.

That word - hypertension - is more commonly associated with having high blood pressure. Lo and behold, there is a connection between increased ocular pressure and abnormal blood pressure that you should be aware of.

When it comes to considering LASIK surgery, there are many factors to account for. Most folks weigh the cost against how badly it’s needed at the moment. However, we urge you to consider the lasting effects LASIK will have on your life. While the procedure itself is fast - generally around 10 minutes per eye - the recovery time has several stages. Then, after that, the world takes on a whole new light. Read on to learn more about how your life will change after LASIK surgery.

“How much screen time should I allow my kids?” is a question that has been asked since the introduction of family TVs and, later, computers. There’s many ways to approach this question, but seeing as we are a group of optometrists and ophthalmologists, we like to look at it by how screen time affects children’s eye sight.

Silk Vision & Surgical Center is pleased to announce we are a Nextdoor Neighborhood Favorite!

Nextdoor is an online forum where folks from over 160,000 neighborhoods can connect and share recommendations of their favorite local businesses. Alongside favorite restaurants, coffee shops, and bookstores, our neighbor's voted the Silk Vision eye care and LASIK center as one of their top local businesses.