When you’re a kid and wear glasses, you hear all kinds of jokes: four-eyes, blind as a bat, guys don’t make passes at girls who wear glasses. As we get older, glasses styles evolve, contacts become not so scary, and our peers mature past teasing insults–I hope. And while playground tormenting is a thing of the past, there are new drawbacks and daily annoyances to wearing contacts or glasses that plague our adult lives.

Problems With Prescription Eyeglasses and Contact Lenses

Fumbling for glasses in the middle of the night and blurry peripheral vision are all too familiar complaints for most people with poor vision; contact lense wearers often suffer from dry eyes or increased eye sensitivity. And it seems like everyone has lost a contact lense or broken a pair of eyeglass frames at the least opportune time.

Meet Max the Mole

“Blind as a bat” might be the go-to joke for heckling the vision-impaired, but moles’ eyesight–or lack thereof–rivals that of bats. Which brings us to Viso Lasik Medspas latest patient, Max the Mole.

No matter how great the outcome, most people aren’t overjoyed at the thought of surgery. And while LASIK eye surgery is fairly non-invasive and an elective, outpatient procedure, when the words “laser,” “eye” and “surgery” come together, people get a little freaked out.

It’s smart to be cautious about your health, and it always pays to do your homework. But it can be hard to know where to start. Luckily, we’ve seen tons of patients over the years and learned a thing or two about common questions and concerns people have about LASIK eye surgery. These should help put your mind at ease and point you in the right direction for further research. At the very least, you know you’re not alone in questioning the idea of voluntarily placing a laser near your eyeball—even in the name of better vision.