See Your Way To Laser Eye Surgery
by Lee
Dobbins
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Electing to have corrective surgery on your eyes can be a great way to
free yourself from the daily grind of constantly cleaning off and
adjusting your glasses or cleaning contact lenses. This type of corrective
surgery is quite common these days and considered safe. Before you decide
to have this procedure, you should do some research on both the type of
surgery and the doctor who you want to perform it.
Types Of Laser Eye
Surgery
Before you pick your Lasik Laser Eye Surgery Newark location, you
should look at the different types of procedures. Three type of surgery
you may want to consider include:
- LASIK or Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis is the most well
known. This surgery cuts a flap in the cornea and reshapes it by
removing tissue. It is a fast procedure with healing in a day or 2 and
immediate improvement in eyesight.
- PRK or Photo Refractive Keratectomy is the procedure that has been
around the longest. Cells are removed from the cornea to reashape it and
improve vision. It has a healing time of a month and vision improvement
is not immediate but gradual over time.
- CK or Conductive Keratoplasty is a fairly new procedure. Uses radio
frequency energy applied with a hair thin device to reshape the cornea.
It is an extremely quick procedure with very quick healing.
Risks
Although most people are good candidates for corrective eye surgery,
some should not undergo the treatment or it may seriously impair their
vision. For this reason, you should discuss having the surgery at length
with your doctor who should advise you of any risks and evaluate your
situation to insure the surgery is safe for you. In rare cases your vision
could become severely impaired, so it is important to get a thorough
evaluation and disclose all health issues to your doctor. Other risks
include fuzzy vision, irritation of dry eye syndrome and loss of clearness
of vision.
Benefits
Being about to see without the aid of contacts or glasses is wonderful!
Imagine waking up and being able to see beyond the end of your bed? There
are many everyday benefits to having your vision restoned. Without having
glasses or contacts in the way, it is much easier to be active and play
sports. Plus you’ll never have to worry about breaking or misplacing your
glasses or contacts or incur the yearly expense for new prescriptions.
Obviously, you should take any procedure involving your eyes very
seriously. Make sure you put a lot of consideration into the procedure and
doctor you want to restore your vision.
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