Kim Gattone Mount Everest Expedition Lasik at ColemanVision December, 2000

Dr. Stephen Coleman of Albuquerque, New Mexico can perform laser vision correction on the following prescriptions:

1) Nearsighted (myopia)
2) Nearsighted with Astigmatism
3) Farsighted (hyperopia)
4) Farsighted with Astigmatism
5) Astigmatism (alone)

Your prescription, however, is only one factor that ultimately determines whether or not you may be a candidate for LASIK.

The overall health of your eye is the single most important consideration. Other contributing factors include the shape and thickness of your cornea, the actual amount of your prescription, and the size of your pupil.

Dr. Coleman uses a variety of sophisticated instruments to evaluate these factors. Just as no two snowflakes are exactly alike, no two eyes are exactly alike and, more importantly, no two surgeons are exactly alike in the way in which they determine whether any particular patient may be a candidate for LASIK.

Although the screening process at ColemanVision is rigorous, it ensures that only excellent candidates are recommended for laser vision correction. Dr. Stephen C. Coleman customizes each LASIK procedure for each individual patient in an effort to achieve the best result possible.

Contact lenses play an important role. To a varying degree, contacts can change the shape of your cornea, the thickness of your cornea, as well as the nature of your tear film. The length of time a person should remain out of contact lenses prior to LASIK is variable and is determined specifically for each patient during the LASIK evaluation. In general, patients wearing hard contact lenses have to stay out of their contacts for a longer period of time before having LASIK than those patients wearing soft contact lenses, but this is not always the case. There is a tremendous amount of interpretation involved in this decision as many factors must be considered. A picture of your cornea, or topographic map, is the single most important piece of information influencing this decision. Dr. Coleman has multiple corneal topographers to assist him in this aspect of the screening process.