Ditch your glasses with corrective vision procedures

SharpeVision Modern Lasik & Lens offers various procedures to help patients of any age correct their eyesight. Sponsored by SharpeVision Modern Lasik & Lens.

SEATTLE — If you wear glasses, you’ve probably experienced losing them or breaking them over the years, and you might just be tired of wearing them all of the time. That’s where SharpeVision comes in to help you break up with your glasses. 

“My vision was that anybody over 18 and older, all the way up to 80 and 90 years old sometimes, if they wanted to, regardless of their prescription, get out of glasses, we have a procedure for almost anybody to allow them that,” said Dr. Matthew Sharpe, founder of SharpeVision Modern Lasik & Lens.

Lasik is the most commonly known vision correction procedure. With Lasik, surgeons use a laser to change the curvature of the cornea, which corrects vision with little risk.

PRK is a complement to Lasik and is performed in place of it for certain people. Sometimes it’s a better fit based on the anatomy of the eye. PRK is a bit easier to perform but a bit harder to recover from. The results are the same as Lasik, correcting moderate to medium amounts of nearsightedness and astigmatism for those 18 to 45 and sometimes older.

Evo ICL is another option generally reserved for younger people (21 to 45) with a very high prescription. Often these people are outside the range of what Lasik can do. Surgeons put a lens inside the eye behind the iris.

“Nobody sees it,” Dr. Sharpe said. “It’s painless and it just corrects nearsightedness and astigmatism you have.”

Another procedure called RLE is similar to Evo ICL but is generally reserved for patients older than 45. The eye’s lens gets less flexible as you age, and this can cause you to need bifocals and reading glasses.  

“When it’s less flexible and you need reading glasses, we can remove that lens as it starts to fail and starts to become dysfunctional,” Dr. Sharpe said.

A new artificial lens allows you to see near vision and distance vision.

SharpeVision is a one-stop shop to correct eyesight and offers a free consultation to talk with a provider about what option is best for you.

“I just love to spread the word to people when they’re worried about it,” Dr. Sharpe said. “They’re afraid it’s going to be scary, painful. What we do at ShapeVision, because we know that, is we have a free comprehensive exam for everybody.”

Learn more and schedule your free exam on the SharpeVision website.

Sponsored by SharpeVision Modern Lasik & Lens. Segment Producer Suzie Wiley. Watch New Day Northwest at 11 a.m. weekdays on KING 5 and streaming live on KING5.com. Contact New Day.