A few points about the procedure of laser eye surgery

Posted in Laser Eye Surgery on April 1, 2009

Often people who have defective eyesight visit an eye specialist to find out if they can undergo laser eye surgery to get perfect vision. Some people fear the pain while some are afraid that their eyesight will be affected negatively.

The truth about laser eye surgery is that it is not only safe but also virtually painless. Laser eye surgery is done by expert surgeons only on people who can benefit from the procedure. This is the reason why laser eye surgery has a stunning success rate above 90%.

The procedure of laser eye surgery takes only about 15 minutes time. Since an ultra thin laser beam is used for sculpting the tissues of the cornea to make the corrections in vision, only a precise area is touched, which allows the patient to feel almost no pain.

During laser eye surgery, patients are fully awake as only local anaesthesia is used. After the laser eye surgery the patient is sent home and asked to sleep so that the process of healing can begin smoothly. In the post surgery period the patient has to wear sunglasses and take care that the eye is not hit by any external object.

Apart from these measures, a little medication is also to be taken to hasten the recovery of the eyes.