Whether or not laser or epi-lasik eye surgery is right for you depends on several factors. You must be an adult, preferably over 21. This is because your eyesight could still be changing but it usually settles around the early/mid twenties.
Mature candidates need to listen to the surgeon’s opinion in view of things such [...]
The LASIK seminar is an excellent way to obtain basic information about laser refractive surgery in an open, comfortable fashion. It is often held near the Excimer laser itself and a tour of the surgical facilities may be provided. Video presentations help to clarify the nature, benefits and risks of LASIK surgery. Attendees are encouraged [...]
If you are considering laser eye correction, it can help if you have a basic understanding of the technical procedures involved in the surgery, as this can help to best inform your decision by giving you a clear understanding about exactly what the surgeons will be doing to your eyes.
For the same reason, it can [...]
One of the benefits of laser surgery is that is can be used to treat a range of patients with different strength prescriptions and different eye conditions
Despite being one of the more common age related eye conditions, laser glaucoma surgery for vision correction is still possible for people aged over sixty, subject to assessment by [...]
If you are thinking about Lasik vision correction surgery but are concerned about the risks, you must understand that any surgical procedure, not just eye surgery, carries an amount of risk.
However the laser eye correction procedures performed today are much safer than when this form of treatment was first introduced. It is extremely rare for [...]
It’s time to stop being vague about things. Don’t be caught in the rush of excitement and enthusiasm that so clearly beckons to you without glasses or contact lenses. It’s a long road to get there and maybe you shouldn’t even try. Refractive surgery is not for everyone who happens to be stricken with a [...]
On the day of your LASIK eye surgery, you should aim to simply rest as much as possible. You should avoid touching, poking or rubbing the eye, although your LASIK surgeon may give you cotton wool to very, very gently dab the eye with if you experience discomfort.
A significant amount of issues arising after [...]
With any surgical procedure there is an element of risk, however, to try to reduce the risks involved with vision surgery, it is imperative you research not only your particular eye problem(s), but also the types of treatment available, as well as the eye surgeons capable of performing such procedures, the types of laser equipment [...]
Patients with astigmatism can have difficulty with objects at either short range or distant range, or both. Some people who do not wear glasses can have astigmatism without realising it, with common symptoms including eye strain, the need to squint to clarify words and letters (squinting compresses the shape of the eye back to ‘normal’) [...]
A cataract is caused when the lens at the front of your eye becomes clouded due to natural proteins in the eye.
This disrupts the light entering the eye, causing blurred vision, which needs to be removed using cataract surgery.
Such cataract surgery will remove the cloudy natural lens from your eye and replace it with an [...]