LASIK versus the Blade: The choice is obvious

Posted in LASIK Surgery on September 14, 2008

There are plenty of ways to go about getting eye surgery done with or without using a blade. The safest way of having an operation on your eyes is obviously without using a blade. So when it comes to choosing between LASIK and the blade, the choice is obvious for most people.

Earlier techniques used by eye surgeons needed a handheld steel blade to cut across the cornea. This would, in some cases, leave a rough surface after the flap was lifted, which often adversely affected the patients vision after the operation, sometimes leaving them in a worse state than they were in before the eye surgery.

Thankfully, the latest method of performing eye surgery - the LASIK eye surgery - completely does away with the use of a blade. Instead, a laser knows as Intralase is used to create corneal flap sides. It is amongst the most advanced and the safest technologies currently available and is being used by doctors all around the world as the preferred alternative to conventional eye surgeries.

This laser eye treatment helps the eyes to heal faster and is much less complicated than regular eye surgery.