The most common forms of laser eye surgery

Posted in Laser Eye Surgery on November 18, 2009

Laser eye surgery has become very popular in the UK during recent years, as it has proved to be extremely effective. How eye surgery can be used to correct defects

Many people use laser eye surgery to correct a number of vision problems, such as myopia (short sightedness), hyperopia (far sightedness) and astigmatism (aberration of the eyeball).

Eye surgery processes

There are a number of processes that are known as eye surgery, other than LASIK, which include:

Radial keratotomy: This is a procedure which originates from the 1960s, and involves small slits being made from the centre of the cornea. This causes the cornea to flatten and also can help to correct slight vision defects.

ALK: Known only to correct myopia and involves the slicing of part of the cornea

Photorefractive keratomy: This is the predecessor of LASIK and was created first in 1987.

LASIK is one of the latest procedures in laser eye surgery, and is one of the safest and least painful.

You should conduct a little research into clinics which carry out laser eye surgery, and choose the most reputable and trusted.