Lasik: Finally a solution for those glasses and lens!
Post operation
Post operation
After the first week, LASIK patients can resume their complete activities.
After LASIK surgery many patients experience immediate improved vision, although it can take up to six months for vision to stabilize.
Since the protective layer remains intact with LASIK, no bandage or contact lens is required. However, a protective eye shield is normally recommended for a day. LASIK patients are placed on an antibiotic and anti-inflammatory drop regimen for about 1 week. They also need to instill artificial tears for a few months. Patients are usually told to sleep much more and are also given a darkened pair of shields to protect their eyes from bright lights and protective goggles to prevent rubbing of the eyes when asleep and to reduce dry eyes.
Follow-up exams ensure proper healing. Patients should be adequately informed by their surgeons of the importance of proper post-operative care to minimize the risk of complications.
Complications
The most common complication from refractive surgery is the incidence of "dry eyes." The high incidence of dry eyes requires a proper preoperative and post operative evaluation and treatment for dry eyes. There are a number of successful treatments for dry eyes including artificial tears, prescription tears and punctal occlusion.
It also must be noted that a potential that the Lasik patient must consider is that dry eyes can be a permanent outcome and untreatable.
The risk for a patient of suffering from other disturbing visual side effects such as halos, double vision (ghosting), loss of contrast sensitivity (foggy vision) and glare after LASIK depends on the degree of ametropia (An eye abnormality, such as nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism, resulting from faulty refractive ability of the eye) before the laser eye surgery and other risk factors.
For this reason, it is important to take into account the risk potential of the individual patient and not just the average probability for all patients.
Patients who have suffered LASIK complications have created websites and discussion forums to educate the public about the risks, where prospective and past patients can discuss the surgery. Most experienced and reputable clinics will do a full-dilation medical eye exam prior to surgery and will give adequate post-operative patient education care to minimize the risk of a negative outcome.
Success rate
The surveys determining patient satisfaction with LASIK have found a satisfaction range being 9298 percent. A meta-analysis dated March 2008 performed by the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery over 3,000 peer-reviewed articles published over the past 10 years in clinical journals from around the world, including 19 studies comprising 2,200 patients that looked directly at satisfaction, revealed a 95.4 percent patient satisfaction rate among LASIK patients worldwide.
Lasik costs
The cost of LASIK eye surgery often appears intimidating to patients considering vision correction treatment. LASIK cost varies based on the patient's degree of refractive error and the area of the country the procedure is performed. What many patients don't know, however, is that there are numerous LASIK financing options available that can help decrease or disperse the fee.
** Note Many
Health Insurance Policies cover LASIK operations, but only above a certain eye power.
So all those looking for corrective surgery, you have a good, safe option available. Go to your ophthalmologist and get the required tests done. But remember consult only a reputed and credible surgeon and take all required precautions. Hope you enjoy a spectacles and contact lens free life soon!! To know more about
Lasik: Finally a solution for those glasses and lens! Lasik: Finally a solution for those glasses and lens!
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