Source: AAO

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LASIK is a surgical procedure intended to reduce a person's dependency on glasses or contact lenses. Use the links to the right to find answers to your questions about LASIK. When you are ready, call 800LaserDr (527-3737) and we will connect you to a highly-qualified laser vision correction specialist near you, so you can be on your way to clear vision.

LASIK is the most popular form of vision correction surgery, making up about 95% of all refractive surgeries performed. Why is it so popular? LASIK has advantages over other procedures, including a relative lack of pain afterward and the fact that good vision is usually achieved almost immediately, or at least by the very next day.

LASIK stands for Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis and is a procedure that permanently changes the shape of the cornea, the clear covering of the front of the eye, using an excimer laser. A knife, called a microkeratome, is used to cut a flap in the cornea. A hinge is left at one end of this flap. The flap is folded back revealing the stroma, the middlesection of the cornea. Pulses from a computer-controlled laser vaporize a portion of the stroma and the flap is replaced.

Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Devices and Radiological Health.


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