How well can humans see?

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The human eye is a truly fascinating structure.

For one, it’s the only place in the human body where you can see bare blood vessels without cutting into tissue.

Secondly, it’s remarkably similar to a camera. Those exposed vessels are actually coursing through something called the retina. The retina is equivalent to the film of the eye; it develops the light that enters through the pupil and gets focused by the cornea and lens. One of the nine layers of the retina is the photoreceptor layer, filled with substances called rods and cones, which processes that light and relays it to your brain in the form of electrical impulses. The density of those photoreceptors correlates with the sharpness of our vision.

The limit of human vision is about 20/10, while some think it’s about 20/8. Meanwhile, hawks, owls, and other birds of prey have much more densely packed rods and cones so their central visual acuity is believed to be closer to 20/2! So you may ask yourself why refractive surgery can improve your best corrected vision if doesn’t do anything to the density of rods and cones. Well, custom refractive surgery reduces or eliminates the intrinsic flaws in your optical system called aberrations that glasses or contacts can’t even correct.

Amazing technology!

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Michael A. Brusco, MD, FACS, is the founder and medical director of Brusco Vision – the premier practice dedicated to changing lives through vision correction in Washington DC and the DMV. He is a board-certified and award-winning refractive surgery subspecialist who has successfully performed over 40,000 corneal-based vision correction procedures, such as high-definition all-laser LASIK and PRK. Dr. Brusco graduated with honors from Harvard College, was awarded the STAAR Top 100 International Surgeon honor multiple years, and is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons, the American Medical Association, and the Refractive Surgery Alliance. He is a founding member of the World College of Refractive Surgery & Visual Sciences, an organization on a global scale. Most recently, Dr. Brusco personally was performing close to 1% of all LASIK procedures in the US annually.

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Schedule Your Consultation
Please provide your information below to request your 'Advanced Necessary Ocular and Vision Analysis' (ANOVA) - a 90-minute experience that gives you an in-depth, 3D look at your eye health and functionality and will leave you with a detailed understanding of your vision and whether you are a candidate for LASIK or our 5 other advanced vision correction procedures.