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You seem like a good candidate but various other diagnostic test are performed to see if they would be good Candidates for Lasik
The perscription alone is not the only criteria for LASIK. However, the huge majority or people with your prescription are LASIK candidates. See a refractive surgeon to make sure.
One of the stubbornly persistent misconceptions from the early days of Lasik and PRK(the 1990's) is that the excimer laser has trouble correcting astigmatism. You don't know how many thousands of patients I have talked to about this misinformation, and, I even heard it from a stranger at a...
If it's within a week postop, this is relatively easy, your surgeon needs to refloat it and replace it, make sure there isn't any epithelium growing under if over a week it becomes more problematic, often there is epithelial ingrowth which is bad, or striae or wrinkles in the flap which can...
Not everyone gets perfect vision after LASIK surgery. Overall, about 5% of people need some sort of fine-tuning or enhancement. This is usually done at about 3 months after the initial procedure. In general, it is an easier and safer procedure than the first one because the majority of risk in...
There are several falacies regarding the lasers ability to correct astigmatism that carry over from our early days with Lasik and PRK in the 1990's. An astigmatism is, essentially, a minor warpage or uneven shape in the human cornea. As a result of the individual variation of this unevenness...
Ulcers and trauma to the cornea can sometimes form scars if they penetrate beyond the layers of the epithelium. These scars will most likely be permanent since the inner layers of the cornea do not recycle like the outer epithelial layer. These superficial scars are generally not a...
Depending upon the laser, the procedure could thin the cornea by about 12-16 microns per diopter of your prescription so a 7.5 diopter prescription might require 90-120 microns. Customized wavefront occasionally takes more tissue as well, again depending on the laser system in use. ...
