Lasik Surgery in Liverpool

Lasik Surgery 101

Lasik eye surgery gives the patient the ability to live their life without the use of contacts or glasses. There are so many patients that have deficiencies in their vision that affect their daily life – especially when this vision must be corrected with the use of glasses, or contacts. The laser eye procedure that is completed has the ability to restore their vision to near perfect.

The refractive laser eye surgery uses lasers to create a thin flap on the eye, folded over to allow the surgeon to correct the problem with the vision at which point the flap is repositioned to allow the eye to heal. Initial healing will occur between two to three days after the surgery when the vision becomes repaired.

To prepare for the surgery it is important to avoid wearing soft contacts for three to four weeks after the surgery and hard contacts should be avoided at least six weeks before the surgery, as well as an additional six weeks for every year that the hard contact lenses have been used. This will allow the eye time to adjust and be in the correct position for the surgeon to complete the surgery to obtain the best results.

Statistics have demonstrated that up to 98% of patients that undergo the Lasik procedure often have improved vision in as little as two days after the surgery has been completed.

As with any surgery, there are side effects that may occur from the surgery, including:

• Dry eyes, which can result from the surgery. Eye drops are given to the patient to reduce the instance of dry eyes resulting in discomfort and pain.

• In the initial couple of days after the surgery the patient can have severe sensitivity to light. There have been some instances in which the patient continues to have light sensitivity for up to six weeks after the procedure has been completed.

• In some cases, the flap may not heal correctly and leave scarring or debris in the place where the vision has been corrected.

Since the 1990s, when Lasik eye surgery was introduced to the general public, the procedure has undergone techniques to evolve the success rate and shorten the recovery time of the procedure. In fact, with many of the changes that the procedure has undergone, it has become more accessible to patients that are worried about the cost of the procedure. Not only has the cost effectiveness of the Lasik eye surgery improved but there are more and more clinics which are offering the procedure and measures are being taken to increase these types of clinics available to patients even further.

The Lasik eye surgery procedure takes as little as thirty minutes per eye to complete the vision and has the following procedure and is available to patients that are over the age of 18 up to the median age of forty to fifty.

Used as a means to correct vision, the procedure is effective as much as 98% of the time and can increase the quality of vision in many cases.