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After LASIK: Short-Term
As with any surgery, it is important that you follow your doctor’s instructions to the letter. Get adequate rest, filling and use any necessary prescriptions and call your doctor immediately if you suspect a problem. What happens after surgery can affect your vision as much as the surgery itself.
Immediately after LASIK, the doctor [...]
LASIK is an outpatient procedure; you walk in the surgery center, the procedure and leave again. In fact, the actual surgery usually takes less than five minutes, and you’re awake all the time. Sometimes the doctor will give an oral mild sedative beforehand. Although the procedure is relatively fast, this does not minimize the importance [...]
Corneal inlays and onlays are made of biocompatible materials that resemble the clear surface of the eye. And if current and future clinical trials success, these devices may represent the earliest a new form of vision correction surgery.
In PRK and LASIK, the vision correction is achieved when energy laser to reshape the cornea to alter [...]
Presby LASIK, also known as multifocal LASIK, is an experimental type of laser vision correction surgery that changes the way clear surface of the eye (cornea) to set different areas to see near far distances.
This surgery corrects presbyopia, causing near vision as to conceal the eye’s natural lens begins to strengthen, usually around age 40. [...]
A new technology called IntraLase seems to enhance the safety of LASIK vision correction using laser energy rather than a microkeratome, a cutting tool with a metal blade used in traditional LASIK procedures.
In LASIK, the microkeratome is used to cut a hinged flap in the cornea. The flap is folded back, and an excimer laser [...]
LASEK (laser epithelial keratomileusis) is a relatively new procedure that is technically a variation of PRK. Also called LASIK epithelial or E-LASIK, LASEK is mainly used for people with corneas that are too thin or too flat for LASIK. It was developed to reduce the possibility of complications that occur when the flap created during [...]
Epi-LASIK is a new laser eye surgery procedure that was developed to solve some of the potential problems with LASIK and LASEK. It is a kind of cross between the two, but differs in some key areas.
LASIK involves cutting a flap in the cornea, either with a sharp blade or a laser, with LASIK also [...]
The LASIK Gazette provides a secure haven for people wanting to know if LASIK procedures are safe before an actual operation occurs. Did you know there are different types of LASIK operations? Read our blog now and choose whats right for you.
