Saturday, April 12, 2008

Can Eye Laser Surgery Be The Right Vision Correction Option For Me?

By David Parton

Ideal LASIK vision surgery candidates need to have a realistic expectation of the results as well an understanding of the risks and serious commitment to reducing their dependence on corrective lenses and eyeglasses. It's a smart idea to do some comparison shopping before you select a clinic that meets with your standards. To establish whether or not a patient will be a suitable candidate for Laser eye treatment, the eye surgeon will conduct a pre-surgical eye examination.

If you have trouble seeing things at a distance, reading the small print on a newspaper or suffer with the overall difficulties of astigmatism, this may be be the right choice for you. These days, one of the most popular forms of laser eye surgery is Laser eye treatment. This process involves an eye surgeon removing tissue from the cornea with an excimer laser. The safety of this procedure is well-documented and you will feel only a mild discomfort.

Astigmatism is the result of a distortion of the image presented to the retina. This occurs because of the not perfectly spherical cornea or lens. Astigmatism is one of the conditions that are regularly treated successfully by Laser eye treatment.

Patients with myopia or nearsightedness, have a problem seeing faraway objects as clearly as nearby ones. When you have myopia, instead of light being focused on the retina where it belongs, it is focussed before the retina. If you suffer from myopia - then Laser eye treatment may offer a solution for you.

People with hyperopia, or farsightedness, see objects at a distance more clearly than close up. Hyperopia is also caused by a cornea that has a curve that is not at a steep enough angle.

You may suffer from presbyopia if you have blurry vision while reading. The normally elastic lens of the eye hardens and becomes less flexible as we grow older reducing the ability for the eye to clearly see nearby objects. Even though Astigmatism, hyperopia and myopia are successfully corrected with Laser eye treatment, this is not the case with presbyopia: which occurs to people over the age of 40. Patients will have to continue the use of corrective lenses for reading after the procedure if they need reading glasses beforehand.

You're visual acuity can generally be restored with Laser eye treatment. A patient's vision improvement after this procedure is virtually instantaneous. The most obvious benefit of a successful Laser eye treatment is the patient's need for corrective lenses to see properly is no longer required.

For more Laser Eye Surgery information visit our Wavefront Surgery site today. Additional Laser Eye Surgery resources can be found at http://www.dimario.info

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