Guide on Eye Laser Surgery! All the details you need on eye laser surgery technology!

Showing posts with label lasik eye surgery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lasik eye surgery. Show all posts

Friday, August 15, 2008

Laser eye surgery? Should I?

Its all nice for me talking to you about what laser eye surgery is, but i have not spoken about i think, and have not given you my recommendations yet...So today i will!

1) So to start the first element i will tell you if you are wondering whether to have eye surgery, is only do it if for you wearing glasses or contact lenses are a real nucance!

2) The second step to look at is what age are you? Has you vision being evolving a lot recently? The reason i am asking you this, is that it would be stupid to do lasik eye surgery if your vision is still evolving. Imagine paying for your eyes surgery, and then after a year your vision has become worse again? That would really be ashame. So make sure that you vision has stabalized.

3) Laser eye surgery has a cost...its clearly not cheap. For example in Calgary the price for lasik surgery per eye is around $375! So for the two it will cost you $750! Even though the prices have apparently come down, due to advance in technology, it is still a real investment. So if you are a bit short moneywise, why not stay with contact lenses?

4) In order to have a good laser treatment and laser surgery i would recommend going to a top eye clinic even though it might be slightly more expensive. Health is important...more than a few hundred dollars!

5) If you can afford it, feel confident and know what you want, then go for it! It will definitely be a big change for you, and would be suprisingly suprised with the changes. 10/10 vision, and a new look (without glasses)!

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Lasik Eye Surgical Procedure

LASIK Eye Surgery is a procedure which is used to correct your vision. Basically it is a surgical procedure which is an alternative to the need to wearing glasses or contact lenses. In fact LASIK is a refractive surgical procedure which after the surgical operation can allow someone to obtain a vision of 20/20. But how does LASIK work? Well in fact it permanently changes the shape of your cornea so that your able to see proparly again!


But what does the LASIK surgical procedure consist in? During the surgery, a laser is used in order to cut a thin part (circular in most cases) in the cornea of your eyes. This thin part is then moved away so that the middle part of the cornea can be seen. Then, with a computer controlled laser minute bits of this section of the cornea are removed and reshaped if necessary. This is the most complex part of the operation. Once the operation is accomplished, your eye and in particular the the cornea is reshaped correctly and will allow you to have a clearer vision. LASIK eye surgery can be used in order to correct different sorts of vision issues such as the near/far sighted issues or even astigmatism!