Fitness: No More Four Eyes

No More Four Eyes

Written by Lee Dobbins

If you are sick of wearing glasses or fiddling with contacts, you should consider laser eye surgery.

Laser surgery to correct your vision is a well tested procedure but is not for everyone so do not enter into it lightly. Done as outpatient surgery, most people are back to their normal routines in a couple of days and some report improved vision upon waking repparttar next day!

There are a couple of procedures avaialbe and each has different recovery and vision improvement times - you should discuss each option with your doctor to find out which is best for your needs.

Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK) is repparttar 138438 most well known. In this procedure, a flap is cut in repparttar 138439 cornea and then tissue is removed to reshape it. This surgery is fast and has a quick healing time of 2 days with immediate improvement in sight.

Photo Refractive Keratectomy (PRK) is repparttar 138440 oldest of repparttar 138441 procedures. This surgery reshapes repparttar 138442 cornea by removing cells from repparttar 138443 surface. The healing time is quite long – a month or more and there is a gradual improvement of vision over time.

See Your Way To Laser Eye Surgery

Written by Lee Dobbins

Electing to have corrective surgery on your eyes can be a great way to free yourself from repparttar

daily grind of constantly cleaning off and adjusting your glasses or cleaning contact lenses. This type of corrective surgery is quite common these days and considered safe. Before you decide to have this procedure, you should do some research on both repparttar 138437

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doctor who you want to perform it. Types Of Laser Eye Surgery

Before you pick your Lasik Laser Eye Surgery Newark location, you should look at repparttar 138439 different types of procedures. Three type of surgery you may want to consider include:

• LASIK or Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis is repparttar 138440 most well known. This surgery cuts a flap in repparttar 138441 cornea and reshapes it by removing tissue. It is a fast procedure with healing in a day or 2 and immediate improvement in eyesight.

• PRK or Photo Refractive Keratectomy is repparttar 138442 procedure that has been around repparttar 138443 longest. Cells are removed from repparttar 138444 cornea to reashape it and improve vision. It has a healing time of a month and vision improvement is not immediate but gradual over time.

• CK or Conductive Keratoplasty is a fairly new procedure. Uses radio frequency energy applied with a hair thin device to reshape repparttar 138445 cornea. It is an extremely quick procedure with very quick healing.

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