subject: What We Should Know About Lasik Eye Surgery [print this page] There are a large number of people who have benefited from Lasik eye surgery. With the help of Lasik eye surgery, some people with nearsightedness, farsightedness or astigmatism can enjoy a good vision and no longer be bothered with hassle of wearing eyeglasses or discomforts of contact lenses. Perhaps you have the strong desire to get rid of eyeglasses or contact lenses for the rest of life and are interested in Lasik eye surgery, please read ahead and know more about this surgery in order to achieve better treating result.
Lasik eye surgery has the following advantages over other eye treatments: First, nowadays it is a simple procedure and easy to perform, so that it has higher successful rate. Second, people dont need to worry there will be much pain like other surgery, but they can feel little pain instead. Last but not least, Lasik eye surgery can enable people to have a shorter time for recovery. Therefore, Lasik eye surgery is very popular nowadays.
If we want to take Lasik eye surgery, we should bear in mind the following points:
Before the surgery, we should visit and talk with our eye doctor first. And it is required people with soft contact lenses have to stop wearing them for 5 to 21 days before visiting our eye doctor, and for those wearing hard contact lenses, 6 weeks will be needed to stop wearing contacts. The reason is that eye doctor needs to evaluate the real shape of our cornea, which is the basis for Lasik eye surgery. If we wear contact lenses, lenses will influence our real cornea shape and lead the eye doctor to make wrong evaluation. At our eye doctors, they will give some tests on our eyes to check our eye problems or other irregularities. Besides, some antibiotics will be required to take in order to reduce the possibility of infection.
During the procedure, eye doctor will give us mild sedative and anesthetic and we must keep ourselves not moving. With the help of a laser, eye doctor will create a thin flap in our eyes and then fold to fix our eye tissues, finally return the flap to the original position. The whole procedure will take a couple of hours, and we can feel little pain.
After the operation, we have to take medication for infection according to eye doctors instructions. And following their advice of our eye doctors also plays an important role in successful treating result, such as cover the operated eyes with eye shields to protect our eyes from strong light or sunshine, or dont drive home after the surgery.
