Why LASIK? because it is simple to perform, predictable, stable and provides early recovery with minimal postoperative care.
Why LASIK? because it is simple to perform, predictable, stable and provides early recovery with minimal postoperative care.
Treatment and technology makes the difference in the outcome.
At this point the most popular procedures are: LASIK, CUSTOM LASIK, EPI-LASIK, PRK and LASEK. All these procedures have some in common and are guided by the same principles.
The Ideal LASIK candidate is the one who: Is above 18 years of age and has had a stable glass or contact lens prescription for at least one year and had a sufficient corneal thickness to allow the surgeon to safely create a corneal flap of appropriate depth.
Is affected by one of the common refractive errors:
Most LASIK Surgeons will agree that technology matters, because outcomes are better with the latest technology. The truth is that most patients who are interested in LASIK surgery don't care what kind of technology the doctor uses to perform the surgery, as long as they have 20/20 vision in the end. But 20/20 vision, is more than number or more than you can read at 20 feet a letter that most human beings should be able to read at 20 feet and. 20/20 means quality vision, means sharp and clear vision, and as you know 20/20 is part of a metric vision scale. In this scale we can find 20/10 , 20/15 , 20/20 , 20/25 and so on, up to count fingers, but did you know that in your chart, doctors must complete with precisely information in order to give the right treatment or diagnosis, so maybe they can tell you that after surgery your vision is 20/20, because it is, but the all true is that in your chart maybe goes 20/20 -1, what is that means?, that's mean that you have a misread in one of the letters of the 20/20 vision line. Most common misread are on C, G, O, E, B, F, P.
Now the key to a successful outcome is definitely the correct treatment, but correct treatment, doesn't means that it is less risky. Patients need to understand that if they are a good candidate for LASIK surgery, it doesn't mean that doctor will create a flap in your cornea in order to proceed with Laser, because is a few factors that need to be considered before;
Most doctors are agreed with the fact of; while the cornea is less expose to be touch, less risky is the surgery and better outcome is the result.
Corneal thickness
If a patient has over 500 microns of cornea thickness, doctors will consider the patient to be a good candidate for LASIK surgery, as long as the refractive errors that need to be treated, don't expose the corneal tissue be out of the normal range accepted. In other words, if the patient has 500 microns of corneal thickness, but his/her refraction to be treated is -18.25 -0.25 x 100, the patient will not be corrected to 20/20 vision because there is not enough corneal tissue to be treated.
Refraction that needs to be treating
In this case, refraction treatment will depend on corneal thickness, as well technology, because the Excimer Laser has some restriction on the treatment range.
Technology (Laser for LASIK)
Because no all the Laser for LASIK are approved by the FDA to treat astigmatism, but it does not mean, that doctors can not treat astigmatism with that Laser machine , because FDA does not regulate or control doctors practice.
A good tip; will be, ask the doctor with what brand and model laser machine he/she will perform the LASIK surgery, and then, we invite you to check with us or with the FDA website, if the machine was approved by the FDA or not, in order to help your confident about your surgery.
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