If people with vision correction needs learned one thing during the COVID-19 pandemic, it was that masks and glasses do not mix.
However, foggy glasses are just one factor that has contributed to an uptick in LASIK and other laser vision correction procedures over the last 18 months.
“I’ve been doing LASIK since 1995 when it was approved by the FDA, and there is no doubt that there has been a huge surge in interest,” Mark Whitten, MD, said. “I’ve attributed that to the fact that people couldn’t go anywhere. They couldn’t spend their money anywhere.