Lasik is belives by patients for correcting refractive errors

Lasik are believes by many patients and doctors as a suitable procedure for correcting refractive errors and had the faster recovery time after having eye lasik surgery. Besides lasik is more complex procedure than PKR. Patients having PKR sometimes needed glasses when reading or driving but this take only twenty percentage of it. PKR is done with a only a few hours and is a out patients procedure which is performed with local anesthetic eye drops. by reshapes gently the cornea by removing microscopic amounts of tissue from the outer surface with a cool, computer-controlled ultraviolet beam of light.

Lasik surgery takes shorter time to recovery and you had to stay a few days in the hospital or clinic. But after the surgery most patients will have the normal eyesight as before. The cost of lasik surgery is charges more than PKR. Before going for lasik eye surgery is better to do your home works by asking all question you want to knows or friends and relatives who has undergone lasik eye surgery and the doctor who performed the surgery.

Understand first before having eye lasik surgery

Before consider yourself of having a eye lasik surgery, get more imforamation of the eye surgeon and also remmember to ask question that you want to know about the operation and things pretaining to the operation.

The laser is used to remove excess tissue from underneath the cornea Laser surgery is the most exciting advancement in ophthalmology. Before the procedure begins, the patient's eye is measured to determine the degree of visual problem, and a map of the eye's surface is constructed. The required corneal change is calculated based on this information, and then entered into the laser's computer.

The surgeon uses a knife called a microkeratome to cut a flap of corneal tissue, removes the targeted tissue beneath it with the laser, and then replaces the flap.
LASIK is a more complex procedure than PRK photorefractive keratectomy. It is performed for all degrees of nearsightedness.