"No Touch" Alternative to Lasik?

This is basically a BS marketing term designed to confuse the consumer, which i therefore resent. the only true "no touch" technique is not even PRK, as you have to remove the epithelium somehow, and normally that's by touching it. when i was a medical student at Columbia in the late 1980s, where PRK and the eximer laser that is used to perform ALL these types of surgery was invented and patented by the way, MDs were experimenting with "no touch" PRK, where... more

No touch laser eye surgery is not LASIK. It is a variant of PRK which is the older and original laser vision correction. In PRK the surface epithelium is removed and then the laser treats the eye which leaves a large raw area that has to heal over 5-7 days. In LASIK a flap is made, and the eye only has to heal at the "seam" which happens in a matter of hours. This is the reason for the rapid recovery and minimal discomfort of LASIK as opposed to PRK. For the PRK procedure,... more