Laser Eye Surgery & Refractive Vision Correction
A full assessment of your eye health will be performed to ensure that only the most appropriate refractive procedure is selected.
Cornea based refractive laser surgery changes the shape of the cornea to change how the light rays focus to the back of the eye. Essentially the glasses prescription is "lasered" into the cornea to improve your vision without glasses or contact lenses.
These corneal refractive procedures include:
Non-Corneal Refractive Surgery procedures provided includes:
Who is a good candidate for corneal refractive laser vision correction?
Persons with the following are not suitable for laser vision correction:
A full discussion of the options, benefits and risks of each procedure is discussed at your consult along with corneal and pupil measurements and a full eye assessment.
Please bring along your previous few spectacles and/or spectacle prescriptions to your consult.
Please note that our testing is involved and will take a few hours to complete. You will also have your pupils dilated which means that your vision will be blurry for a few hours, until the dilatation wears off.
Please let us know at the time of scheduling your appointment if you wear soft or hard contact lenses, so that additional instructions can be provided.
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Cornea based refractive laser surgery changes the shape of the cornea to change how the light rays focus to the back of the eye. Essentially the glasses prescription is "lasered" into the cornea to improve your vision without glasses or contact lenses.
These corneal refractive procedures include:
- LASIK (Laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis)
- Advanced Surface Ablation (ASA) /Photorefractive keratectomy (PRK)
Non-Corneal Refractive Surgery procedures provided includes:
- Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL)
- Refractive Lens Exchange (RLE)
Who is a good candidate for corneal refractive laser vision correction?
- 21 years and older
- Stable refraction - this means that your glasses prescription should not have changed in the past few years (copies of your previous glasses prescription over the years from your optometrist will be useful).
- Your overall eye health needs to be good.
- Your cornea needs to be healthy and sufficiently thick for the procedure.
- Your refractive error needs to be one that can be treated with laser.
- PRK is more suitable for persons with dry eyes and persons with an active lifestyle compared to LASIK
Persons with the following are not suitable for laser vision correction:
- Changing refractive error
- Skin or other diseases that can affect healing
- History of cornea scarring
- Cornea diseases
- Advanced glaucoma
- Uncontrolled Diabetes
- Pregnant or nursing women
- History of certain eye infections.
A full discussion of the options, benefits and risks of each procedure is discussed at your consult along with corneal and pupil measurements and a full eye assessment.
Please bring along your previous few spectacles and/or spectacle prescriptions to your consult.
Please note that our testing is involved and will take a few hours to complete. You will also have your pupils dilated which means that your vision will be blurry for a few hours, until the dilatation wears off.
Please let us know at the time of scheduling your appointment if you wear soft or hard contact lenses, so that additional instructions can be provided.
Contact us