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 focuses to the back of the eye. Essentially the glasses prescription is "lasered" into the cornea improve your vision without glasses or contact lenses.
These corneal refractive procedures include:
Who is a good candidate for refractive cornea 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 past few glasses prescription to your consult.
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Cornea based refractive laser surgery changes the shape of the cornea to change how the light rays focuses to the back of the eye. Essentially the glasses prescription is "lasered" into the cornea 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)
- Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL)
- Refractive Lens Exchange (RLE)
Who is a good candidate for refractive cornea laser vision correction?
- 21 years and older
- Stable refraction - this means that your glasses prescription should not have changed in the past few years
- Your overall eye health needs to be good.
- Your corneas 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 scaring
- 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 past few glasses prescription to your consult.
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