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| Spectacle Removal Eye Surgery | | | | Recovery after LASIK surgery |
| | | | | In most cases, recovery from LASIK surgery is fast |
| Surgery for correcting or improving refractive errors | | | | and involves minimal discomfort. Mild pain relievers |
| Clear vision depends on how well the cornea and lens | | | | may be recommended by your surgeon to relieve |
| permit light rays to fall onto the retina. Light rays | | | | discomfort during the first day after surgery. Patients |
| must be refracted (bent) to focus on the retina. The | | | | typically take eyedrops for a week after the |
| retina is the light-sensitive nerve layer that lines the | | | | procedure. |
| back of the eye, which creates impulses from the | | | | |
| light rays that are sent through the optic nerve to | | | | Benefits of LASIK surgery |
| the brain. | | | | LASIK can correct a wide range of myopia, up to 15 |
| | | | | diopters (unit of measurement of the refractive |
| Here are several types of corrective surgical | | | | power of a lens). |
| procedures for refractive errors, including, but not | | | | LASIK can be repeated to correct the vision further. |
| limited to : | | | | The eyes stabilize between three and six months |
| - Laser in-situ keratomileusis (LASIK) surgery | | | | after LASIK surgery. |
| wavefront-guided LASIK | | | | The eye is not weakened, because only one flap is |
| - Photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) | | | | cut into the cornea. |
| - Radial keratotomy (RK) | | | | LASIK usually causes little or no scarring of the |
| - Astigmatic keratotomy (AK) | | | | cornea. |
| - Automated lamellar keratoplasty (ALK) | | | | Post-operative care is usually limited to using eye |
| - Laser thermal keratoplasty (LTK) | | | | drops for a week after surgery. |
| - Conductive keratoplasty (CK) | | | | |
| - Intracorneal ring (Intacs) | | | | What is photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) surgery |
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| What is LASIK surgery ? | | | | Photorefractive keratectomy, or PRK, uses the same |
| LASIK, or laser in-situ keratomileusis, surgery is used | | | | excimer laser used in LASIK surgery and is |
| to correct nearsightedness. When a person is | | | | performed to reshape the cornea in an attempt to |
| nearsighted (myopic), his or her eye is too long or | | | | correct mild to moderate myopia (nearsightedness). |
| the cornea is too steep, resulting in too much | | | | According to the US Food and Drug Administration |
| focusing power. The light rays entering the eye come | | | | (FDA), PRK has a 95 percent success rate. Only |
| in focus before hitting the retina, resulting in blurry | | | | about 15 percent of patients need glasses, |
| vision when looking in the distance. The procedure, | | | | occasionally, following surgery. |
| which should be performed by a skilled eye surgeon, | | | | |
| involves reshaping the cornea using an excimer laser. | | | | Please log on to : |
| LASIK is replacing many of the other refractive eye | | | | Send your query : Get a Quote |
| surgery techniques. | | | | |
| | | | | We Care Core Values |
| How is LASIK surgery performed ? | | | | We have a very simple business model that keeps |
| Although each procedure varies slightly, in general, | | | | you as the centre. |
| LASIK surgery involves using a computer-controlled | | | | Having the industry’s most elaborate and |
| excimer laser (a cold, ultraviolet laser) and a | | | | exclusive Patient Care and Clinical Coordination teams |
| microkeratome (a surgical instrument). With these | | | | stationed at each partner hospital, we provide you |
| instruments, the surgeon cuts a flap in the center of | | | | the smoothest and seamless care ever imagined. |
| the cornea to remove a thin layer of tissue. By | | | | With a ratio of one Patient Care Manager to five |
| removing the tissue, the cornea flattens, reducing the | | | | patients our patient care standards are unmatched |
| myopia. The flap, which is replaced without using | | | | across the sub continent. |
| sutures, adheres back to the cornea within minutes. | | | | |