| Laser correction surgery is truly a modern | | | | patient you will need to stare into buzzing lights, |
| marvel, it is the best kind of technology when it | | | | which can be very disorientating and even |
| comes to correcting your eyesight. Laser | | | | frightening. |
| technology has progressed a long way from it | | | | The introduction of IntraLase allows the doctors |
| humble beginnings in 1960. To the modern | | | | to use a new blade-free laser technology for |
| excimer laser that uses pulses of light to remove | | | | performing the critical first step in the lasik |
| tissue from you cornea. The lasers now are | | | | procedure. This is creating the corneal flap. Prior to |
| capable of accurately sculpting the cornea of the | | | | IntraLase, this first step was done manually by |
| eye, and changing the ability of the eye to focus | | | | doctors using a hand-held device with an oscillating |
| and thus correcting your eyesight. | | | | metal razor blade, called a microkeratome. |
| The results from laser eye surgery can be | | | | IntraLase replaces the metal cutting tool with a |
| astonishing, it is however eye surgery and there | | | | laser-precise, laser-cutting technology. |
| are some potential risks, so it is not a procedure | | | | Once the corneal flap is created, the Laser is then |
| you should take lightly. Laser surgery is becoming | | | | used to reshape the cornea. Its a bit like adjusting |
| increasingly popular and there are several types | | | | the focus on a camera lense. Once reshaped the |
| of treatment available. For many people the | | | | cornea then focuses the light correctly improving |
| benefits of permanent sight correction far out | | | | your vision. |
| way any potential risk. | | | | It is highly advisable to contact your eye clinic and |
| Laser eye surgery is not painful (the eyes are | | | | discuss the options and the procedure further |
| anesthetized with drops) but it is not pleasant. | | | | before making any decisions. The results of laser |
| The patient is awake throughout the procedure, | | | | eye surgery can be phenomenal, being able to |
| and the eye lids are artificially held open. To the | | | | throw away your old glasses is truly fantastic. |