Having healthy eyes with Lasik

IN the past decade, the phenomenon of lasik surgery enough attention in many countries. Singapore as a country with high rates of people with myopic eyes is one of the countries that have a lot of requests for lasik.

Although he has enough information and advertisements about lasik in circulation, there are still people and even the eye doctors who do not know the true about lasik, many kesalahapahaman, myths, and doubt. Confusion like this usually arises from the question what the benefits of lasik and refractive surgery process itself.

Here's an explanation Dr Chua Wei Han, M Med (Ophth), FRCSEd (Ophth), FAMS, Consultant ophthalmologist, refractive Surgery Service of the Singapore National Eye Centre to be able to address concerns about lasik.

What is lasik laser, without a knife?

This type of lasik surgery using femtosecond laser type to open the cornea. By using micro-mechanical keratom, complications that occurred when the cornea is very small opening. Aperture corneas that are too small and irregular would complicate the process of lasik second phase to be implemented.

Then, using the latest techniques hadirlah femtosecond laser. Small, with a short pulse infrared allowing the accuracy in the cornea. With the presence of this unique type of laser, an opening in the cornea becomes more smooth and do not leave their mark in time will heal. The more good making these openings, the better the resulting eye.

Can people over 40 years to do lasik?

Those who have a myopic eye at the age of 40's and need to use glasses to read, could be asked to continue to use glasses after lasik surgery. Although until now no method that does not require patient age of 40 use glasses again, this condition can be reduced by a series of other lasik procedure called "slight monovision".

This procedure, which is exactly the same as lasik procedure to fix a distant view, was made on the dominant eye to see far away, while the non-dominant eye, will still need to use reading glasses. This provides the same effects when patients use bifocals.

Most patients chose this procedure because it can help a distant view them, but others find it difficult to get used to the conditions of a pair of eyes that berbada different. This can be done several days after surgery in which patients can wear contact lenses on non-dominant eye.