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Considering Laser Eye Surgery? Everything You Need to Know

Author: Manoj Kadam
by Manoj Kadam
Posted: Jan 28, 2016

The advent of technology in the medical field has benefited humans in many ways from time to time. Eyes the important part of the body loses its vision as human ages. This may be due to lack of vitamins inside the body. Nowadays, these vision problems are suffering the children at young age too. Until recent times, glasses or contact lenses are considered as most effective ways of treating the vision problem. The advancement in technology has brought a new way in treating the vision problems. It is none other than eye surgery with laser.

Now, you can easily correct your vision problems without the need for external objects like glasses or contact lenses. It is none other than laser eye surgery. Most of them who would like to have a better vision would like to go for this process. If you are one who is looking to undergo laser eye treatment, you should always take an informed decision by knowing complete information. Laser eye treatment is a surgical process.

To say it in a non-medical language, lasers are used to correct the parts of eye that don’t work. This is the reason why, laser eye surgery is considered as best option to treat vision problems. It helps in making your eyesight clearer and much improved. There are different types of laser surgery, the best Lasik eye surgeons will, conclude the best type based two factors like how poor your vision is and the factors that have contributed for your poor vision.

You have to undergo examination with best Lasik eye surgeons and prove that your eyesight has not changed since a year and produce an examination sheet that states your current health status.

The most common laser eye surgeries are LASIK and LASEK (PRK). LASIK eye surgery is the most common procedure and is suitable for people who have a cornea that is not thick or too flat to withstand the LASIK eye surgery. LASEK method involves preserving corneal epithelium. The eye doctors treat the area with a diluted alcohol solution which loosens the epithelium. The loosed tissue will be rolled back and work with a laser on the exposed corneal tissue beneath.

In the LASEK procedure, the surgeon makes sure that cornea is thick enough to withstand the treatment. Very thin, circular flap of tissue is created in the outer epithelium with the help of the laser or a computer-controlled instrument. After this is cut and moved away, the eye doctors reshape the cornea to change the light refraction in the eye.

The whole process (including examination) may take few hours but, the surgery will be completed just in few minutes. In most of the cases, you can return to home immediately after surgery. However, it is advised to have a friend or family member to accompany you to your home after surgery because you will be sedated and will not be able to see clearly immediately after surgery.
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