Lasik Procedure - How it Works

How it Works?

Laser Eye Surgery is the process which many people choose over wearing glasses or contact lenses, but many don’t know the process, advantages, disadvantages and the side effects after this procedure. Lasik and Lasek are two different laser eye surgery procedures but the most common and popular procedure is Lasik because it is more comfortable and less longer than Lasek. The recovery time after having Lasik is far less than Lasek since to recover from a Lasek procedure, it may take over a week whereas people could be doing their regular activities within a time span of 48 hours. Hence the Lasik procedure is more common than the Lasek procedure.

One of the major differences between a Lasik procedure and a Lasek procedure is that during the Lasik procedure, a flap is created. The flap is made of the outer transparent part of the eye; which is called the cornea, and before the laser is applied, the flap is separated from the surface of the eye. Intralase describes how the flap is created during the Lasik procedure. During the standard Lasik, the flap is created by using a microkeratome; which is a surgical blade, while a laser is used during Intralase. In most cases, Intralase is often considered to be a more exact and safer procedure than standard Lasik because no blade is used during the procedure unlike the standard Lasik procedure. People find Intralase as a better procedure since no blade is being used.

Both Lasik and Lasek have Wavefront which describes the way the laser is applied. Wavefront is more of an accurate eye surgery compared to a standard Lasik or Lasek procedure. In this procedure, many measurements are taken across the cornea while only a few are taken during the standard Lasik procedure. The chances of the vision you achieve after the Wavefront procedure are 20:20 which is much better than the standard Lasik procedure.

During the actual laser surgery, the cornea is reshaped depending on your prescription and the vision is also blurred due to one major reason which leads to two different ones. The retina at the back of the eye is affected by the light entering the eye does not focus properly which leads to a blurry vision. The vision is also affected whether you are long sighted or short sighted, and these two different sights have different effects on the vision during the laser eye surgery. The light slips back of the retina if you are long sighted while the opposite happens if you are short sighted. When the light is focused on the retina, chances are that you will have a 20:20 vision and will not need lenses or glasses.

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