To ensure that eye laser treatment achieves the best results, it is absolutely critical to maintain a continuous aftercare program for at least two months subsequent to surgery. Thankfully, the aftercare program does not involve any expensive medication or complicated procedures – it is based on common sense and a respect for the exceptionally sensitive [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If you are one of the millions of people who currently have the hassle of wearing glasses or contact lenses, it is likely you have thought about laser vision correction before.
Many of the advantages of having refractive surgery are clear to see, even to those who are not considering the procedure.
First of all, you [...]
Wavefront is another form of laser treatment, which goes a little further than conventional laser eye surgery.
Conventional laser eye surgery treats the area based on the patient’s optical prescription and treatment is in the form of a pattern programmed into the system by the surgeon, but it can leave the patient with some night vision [...]
You have decided that glasses/contact lenses are no longer for you and you intend to have vision correction surgery. What a pleasure it will be to look into a mirror without your glasses.
Now you have made your decision regarding vision correction surgery, you need to find a suitably qualified eye doctor.
If you want to buy [...]