Lasik Eye Surgery California : Is LASIK Too Risky For You?




How do you know if LASIK is suitable for you? Do you know that in america, one in 2000 people has an eye disease that can get worse if they have had LASIK? Trouble is that many of these people don’t even know they have it. 

Now, you are able to find out even before undergoing the LASIK surgery. You are even able to know the type of eye disease you may get if you had gone ahead with the surgery without this check previously.

So how is this scan check carried out?

Kristin Kuntz went for such a checkup to qualify her to undergo LASIK. Lucky for her, pictures from an Orbscan machine show that she has a thin, irregular cornea. LASIK will have weaken her cornea and she could have developed keratoconus. This causes distorted vision.

In the end, Kuntz choose PRK surgery instead even though the recovery time is longer than LASIK.

For more details of this LASIK news report, visit charlotte news.




    • Lasik Eye Surgery California : Lasik Techniques




    This book, LASIK Techniques : Pearls and Pitfalls, edited by J. Kevin Belville and Ronald Smith, talks about the techniques that are used in Lasik Eye Surgery. It is truly a unique book and relates wells to the challenges of managing patients who have undergone LASIK surgery.

    Here is a description of the book:

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    LASIK Techniques: Pearls and Pitfalls is a focused, practical text that contains numerous insights and pearls to assist with LASIK surgery. Utilizing an interview-style format to present the similarities and differences in the LASIK operating procedures, this book compares and analyzes the experience of 10 influential refractive surgeons.

    Editors J. Kevin Belville, MD and Ronald J. Smith, MD, MPH, FACS designed this resource for the surgeon familiar with LASIK, but who wants to improve his or her technique by reading how experts perform this corrective procedure. Questions were presented to the surgeons that focus on practical topics. The presentation of their answers in an organized manner, coupled with the editors’ in-depth analysis, enables readers to increase their understanding of targeted surgical techniques.

    Other topics covered in the book included Preoperative evaluation of indications and contraindications for LASIK Creating a flap using Hansatome, and Intralase kerotomes Laser ablation Management of complications.

    This LASIK book is most suitable for LASIK surgeons, from beginner to expert level.




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