Often set questions on laser eye surgery

Q: whether Really it is painful?

A: Is a little, if any discomfort during surgery because a cornea and an eye are anesthetized by drops. Some patients test "clumsy feeling." After anesthetic is erased, the quantity of discomfort varies depending on each person, but any boring inappreciablly and usually disappears within several hours. You can be sensitive to shine within several days.

Q: When I be able be returned to work?

A: the Majority of people can be returned to work one - three days after surgery, but the empirical rule should wait, while you do not feel before. The majority of homing to normal aktivnostjam, as soon as day after surgery.

Q: What by-effects and Risks?

A: the Most blanket by-effects - effect of a halo and some bright light at night round fires.
(See, "What Risks of Laser Surgery?")

Q: How treatment takes long?

A: laser treatment occupies only approximately 15 - 40 seconds grounded on a degree of necessary correcting. Restoration is underload, and usually the patient in a state to be conducted home approximately after 30 minutes. As a rule, you sweep up the refined view through 3 - 5 days after treatment.

Q: whether treatment - a permanent wave of hair is real?

A: According to effects of the American clinical trials and effects has informed it is international, treatment, apparently, a permanent wave of hair. As age of people, however, their change of eyes and retreatment can be necessary.

Q: There any restrictions of activity follow surgery?

A: the Following surgery, do not wipe the eyes. Besides, patients can make that they feel before while they follow instructions of the doctors.

Q: What, if I move the head during surgery?

A: It is quantity one question which patients set at transference of laser treatment. The surgeon is qualified in the technician of excision of his foot from a pedal which controls an ultra-violet fascicle as soon as the patient moves it or her head. It allows it to reconstruct a fascicle with corneal "purpose" and to recommence surgery.

Q: What efficiency (predictability, stability) LASIK for short-sightedness and an astigmatism?

A: For low to soften short-sightedness (-1 к-6 D), follows from examinations in the literature, have shown, that LASIK it is effective and predicted in terms of reception very good to the excellent not corrected visual acuteness. For moderated to high short-sightedness (> 6.0 D), effects - there is more than variable, considering a wide gamut dooperatsionnoj short-sightedness. Effects are similar for treated eyes with low to decrease astigmatism degrees (<2.0 D).

Q: What complications LASIK?

A: the Serious adverse complications leading to the considerable permanent visual losses, such as infections and a corneal ectasia possibly, seldom meet in procedures LASIK. On the contrary, irritating by-effects, such as dry eyes, evening time starbursts, and-or the reduced contrast sensitivity meet rather often.

At LASIK there is a potential to blast merging, causing a squint and a diplopia in acquisitive patients. It is doubtful, if there are any relations between LASIK and the enlarged incidence of postoperative amotio of a retina.