Lasik Correction

How long have you been experiencing eye defects? How long have you been wearing corrective eyeglasses or contact lenses? Have you grown tired of waking up each morning and having blurry vision, often leaving you in difficulty as you grope for your eyeglasses or contact lens kit? Perhaps it may be time for you to consider getting corrective laser eye surgery in order to rid yourself of those numerous eye troubles.

Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis – more distinctly known as LASIK, is a type of surgical process performed by eye surgeons for the purpose of correcting vision. In case you haven’t known, it is a way for you to “receive your sight back”. More and more people today are being drawn into choosing LASIK as an alternative to wearing eyeglasses or corrective lenses. Over a decade ago, it was being taught in schools and made known to ophthalmology patients that there would be no real method for curing eye problems such as nearsightedness, astigmatism, and the like – except for using corrective lenses. Today, LASIK has changed all that and is becoming more popular as people who have undergone this type of surgery have testified that it works and that their lives have become less worrisome, thanks to a new 20/20 vision. In fact, surveys have stated that over 90% of LASIK patients were found to be very much satisfied with the whole procedure.

What are the advantages of LASIK as compared to other types of laser eye surgery? With LASIK, healing is usually faster than with other procedures, and “new” vision can be achieved rather quickly (sometimes, even only after a day). In other types of laser eye surgery, such as photorefractive keratectomy (PRK), good vision will gradually occur after weeks or even months. Another advantage would be the time spent during operation. In LASIK, the whole procedure would take roughly ten minutes only, which is very quick, and is painless. Ten minutes is not enough time to even make you feel uncomfortable – it passes by rapidly; before you know it, the surgery would be finished.