Have Healthy Eyes with Lasik

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

Although it has enough information about lasik in circulation and advertising, there are still people and even the eye doctors who do not know right about lasik, many kesalahapahaman, myths, and doubt. Such confusion usually arises from the question what are the advantages 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 answer your doubts 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 cornea that is too small and irregular would complicate the process of lasik second phase to be implemented.

So philosophy, exists latest techniques using femtosecond laser. Small, with infra-red pulse is short, allowing the accuracy in the cornea. With the presence of this unique type of laser, an opening in the cornea becomes increasingly smooth and no trace when recovered later. The more good openings making it, 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 for reading, may 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 repair a long view, performed on the dominant eye to see far away, while the non-dominant eye, will still need to use reading glasses. This gives the same effect when patients used the bifocal.

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 berbada different. This can be done several days after surgery in which patients can use a contact lens in the eye that is not dominant.