Nearsightedness and other common eye problems aren’t things that are always easy to live with, but with advances in eye surgery like LASIK, a sufferer need not live their whole lives with vision issues like these. In Los Angeles LASIK is particularly popular.
LASIK is the most common refractive surgery procedure performed in the world today. Many people don’t know that the name is actually short for “laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis.” It’s a mouthful, which is why people shorten it to LASIK.
What makes it the choice of so many people? Very little pain and quick results (often a day or less) are the two primary reasons for the procedure’s overwhelming popularity.
An instrument called a microkeratome (or some surgeons now use a laser exclusively) is used to start the surgery by creating a thin flap in the cornea. The surgeon moves the flap, then removes some corneal tissue underneath using another specialized laser. This laser uses ultraviolet light with very high precision to remove bits of tissue from the cornea to “reshape” it to make vision more efficient.
This reshaping improves the function of the cornea and retina by focusing light better on both parts of the eye responsible for vision. The flap is then laid to rest over the area where the bits of tissue were removed already, to protect it.
That should give you an idea what goes into a typical LASIK surgery. Read about Los Angeles Lasik options.
