Costs of refractive surgeries
While calculated at per eye, the cost of LASIK can be quite different from one surgeon to another. If the patient wants to have two eyes corrected, the cost doubles. In addition, LASIK involving new technologies such as wavefront and bladeless also requires higher prices.
More...Kinds of LASIK complications
Even if performed by experienced surgeons, LASIK may cause rare complications. In fact, LASIK is only one of the refractive surgeries. Others include LASEK, PRK and implantable lenses.
More...Three options of financing plans for LASIK
LASIK always costs a few thousand dollars per eye, which is somewhat unaffordable for low-income individuals. Fortunately, various financing options help these people receive LASIK, insuring best visual treatment.
More...Epi-LASIK surgery explanation
As a new form of laser eye surgery, Epi-LASIK combines some features of both LASIK and LASEK and also addresses some visual problems that are beyond these two procedures. In general, Epi-LASIK differs in operation devices and eye parts.
More...Expectation of LASIK outcomes
The elective LASIK has helped thousands of patients in reducing the dependency on eyeglasses and contact lenses, which is the most attractive advantage of the procedure.
More...Candidate evaluation of LASIK
Candidates of LASIK or PRK should meet certain requirements, which are essential to get safe and desired outcome. There is online LASIK screening for a personalized evaluation.
More...Advantages of bladeless LASIK
While conventional LASIK uses mechanical cutting tools, all-laser LASIK performs in a different way. Also named bladeless LASIK, all-laser LASIK takes use of two types of lasers: femtosecond laser and excimer laser.
More...Advantages and problems of presbyopia-correcting IOLs
It is amazing that presbyopia correction can be achieved through cataract surgery, which is a good example of “killing two birds with one stone”.
More...Advantages of wavefront LASIK
As optical irregularities, aberrations have two main types: lower order aberrations such as nearsightedness and astigmatism and higher order aberrations that can not be corrected by eyeglasses. Examples of higher order aberrations include spherical aberration and coma.
More...A variety of vision correction surgeries
Before the 1950s, there were only eyeglasses for refractive vision correction. Nowadays, there are still contacts lenses and other surgeries that are used to correct refractive errors.
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