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Lasik Surgery - The Best Way To Correct Vision
LASIK is the most well known surgical procedure willful to reduce a person's dependency on glasses or contact lenses. LASIK (Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis) provides vision correction by permanently changing the shape of the cornea and changing it's focusing power.
In the corneal tissue is precisely removed and the cornea is reshaped.
In the USA, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of LASIK in correcting vision since 1998, for the treatment of myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism.
LASIK is not recommended for the persons which are in their early 20s or younger, the persons which have diabetes, are pregnant, or are taking medications such as steroids. Also, people who had glaucoma suspect, or ocular hypertension, eye diseases or previous eye surgeries should not have LASIK surgery. There are a few indicators of risk that have to be taken into consideration when a person decides to have LASIK surgery, such as: large pupils, thin corneas, previous refractive surgery, dry eyes (LASIK surgery aggravates eye dryness).
Before you have you have to stop using contacts for 1 to 4 weeks advance surgery to permit the cornea to return to it's initial shape. During the patients are given an anesthetic and generally they feel no pain, but there are a few cases when they suffer some
discomfort.
You
can have for both eyes at the same time if your health condition allows it. regularly takes about 5 or 10 minutes per eye.
The newest technology
in LASIK is the wavefront laser, approved by the FDA in 2002, which sends a wave
of light to the retina that helps producing a 3-D map oh the eye's visual system.
During
the complications can appear in very few cases, for less than 1% of patients.
You
can be a candidate for if you are at least 18 years old and you had no radical changes in
vision over the past year. In addition, for persons with severe vision problems
LASIK may not be an option.
After having a there is a small chance to lose vision, for the patients who were among
the persons for whom the LASIK was not indicated. Also, after the
there were patients who had blurred vision, bad night vision and diminished
contrasts. Generally, these problems can be resolved by a new treatment. |
