Lasik Doctor Corrects Vision Problems Through Laser Surgery

2007-03-08 10:33:40

( Health )



You may want to get rid of your glasses or have a serious condition that threatens your eyesight. You ought to see your ophthalmologist to have an eye examination. If the results of the eye examination show that your eyes are suffering only from refractive errors (nearsightedness, farsightedness or astigmatism), you can go to a Lasik doctor for refractive surgery.

Before performing refractive surgery on you, your Lasik doctor will check certain things about you. Your eye prescription should have remained stable for at least twelve months. You should not be suffering from autoimmune disorders or uncontrolled vascular diseases. You should not have thin corneas or large pupils, since these may raise the chances of adverse effects. There are other things the Lasik doctor will ask you before proceeding any further.

Once the decision is made to correct refractive errors through laser surgery, your lasik doctor will cut a small flap on the cornea of your eye. The doctor will reshape the cornea beneath its surface. Using the special laser, the doctor vaporizes the tissue from the center of the cornea, thus flattening it. The flap is then closed.

Your Lasik doctor knows there are good chances (but no guarantees) that you will recover your vision. During the first six months after surgery, you will probably experience high sensitivity to light at night, or see halos or starburst patterns around lights. This may be particularly troublesome to you especially during night driving. Nevertheless, you can reasonably hope your vision will be near normal six months after surgery.

The cost of lasik surgery is not usually covered by insurance. You can check your medical plan if lasik surgery is included. But costs have gone down substantially from the time lasik surgery was first introduced in 1998. Lasik Los Angeles now costs less than a thousand dollars per eye.


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