Masks Causing Foggy Glasses Sparks LASIK Eye Surgery Revival
In recent months, there’s been a sudden resurgence in LASIK eye surgery’s popularity among patients wearing glasses. There’s one simple reason for that — they could no longer stand their eyeglasses constantly fogging up due to face masks. The use of face masks in COVID-19 times has significantly affected eyeglass wearers’ ability to perform at work, sports, or even regular activities like driving. Far from being a minor inconvenience, your eyeglass constantly fogging up can also have some serious consequences.
As such, LASIK surgery’s sudden popularity is understandable. It seems that face masks will remain in our society for a while longer still — it may even become the new normal. LASIK surgeries correct your eyesight, so you no longer have to wear eyeglasses or worry about your glasses fogging up at work. This article explores why eyeglasses fog up frequently, how eyeglass fogging can have serious consequences, and how
Why do your eyeglasses constantly fog up?
When you exhale, you release tiny droplets of warm water vapors. Under normal circumstances, the warm and moist air moves away from your body, leaving your glasses unaffected. However, if you’re wearing a face mask, the moist air travels upward and escapes via the top of your eyeglasses, which is usually close to your eyeglass lenses. As such, the water vapors spread across your lenses as a thin film, fogging up your glasses from the insides. The fogginess dissipates gradually as the water evaporates.
What are the consequences of your eyeglasses fogging up?
Foggy eyeglasses don’t seem like a major issue — it sounds more like an inconvenience. However, if you’ve got a job that requires you to keep your mask on for extended durations, those tiny inconveniences accumulate to affect your work productivity. Whether you’re a line cook, a barista, a waitress, or a technician, you can’t work productively if you have to continuously wipe your glasses clean.
Foggy eyeglasses can also have serious consequences if you need to wear a mask while driving. Driving with foggy eyeglasses is like having a foggy windshield, but without the vipers. It can put you and everyone else in your vehicle in danger. Foggy eyeglasses also have large consequences for first responders who need to react to situations quickly.
How can LASIK surgery help you avoid foggy glasses?
At Pacific Vision, we can liberate you from worrying about foggy glasses forever. LASIK eye surgery is an advanced and cutting-edge treatment that reshapes the cornea (the transparent front part of the eye) to correct your refractive errors, such as nearsightedness, farsightedness, and presbyopia.
During the procedure, the surgeon measures your eyes carefully to create a thin flap on the cornea, allowing them to correct its curvature to ensure it bends light accurately. At Pacific Vision, our advanced LASIK eye surgeries help patients achieve 20/20 vision or better.
Once you’re liberated from eyeglasses and contact lenses, you don’t need to worry about foggy lenses anymore. Furthermore, a LASIK surgery basically pays for itself down the line because you don’t need to spend hundreds of dollars on eyecare and glasses every year.