Laser Eye Surgery UK

People that were forced to wear contacts or glasses all their life can now leave these aids behind by using a new and innovative LASIK procedure called the LASIK eye surgery.

This new type of refractive eye surgery can be risky but in most cases after detailed testing and consultation the final result is a good one. If you worry about the duration of the surgery, you should know that everything lasts only a few minutes but in order to obtain good results you should be very careful about the pre and post operative appointments.

It is very important to choose a good eye surgeon and after he evaluates he’ll establish the details of the procedure. He’ll let you know if you’re a good candidate or not, he’ll explain the procedure, the complications, the risks and the final result and together you’ll set the post-op appointment.

A few weeks before the LASIK eye procedure it’s recommended that you use only glasses and no contact lens because the shape of the cornea plays the most important role during evaluation.

When the procedure starts you’ll be sitting in a chair while the doctor will put numbing drops in your eyes. After he cleans up the area around the eyes, he’ll use a machine that will keep your eye lids open.

You might feel pretty weird because our eye lids are programmed to shut but if you stay relaxed you won’t feel a thing. The lasik eye surgeon use various types of machines and that’s why the level of discomfort can vary a lot from one patient to another.

Next, you’ll have to look straight into a laser placed over your eye while the surgeon will complete the procedure.

Everything happens very fast and the discomfort will only last a few seconds. All the above mentioned details sound scary and when you think that everything happens in the eye you might reconsider but you shouldn’t. LASIK eye procedure is very safe and most candidates leave the hospital with excellent results.

Ricky Lim
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My child’s eyesight is -4.75. She is fourteen and she really wants to get rid of her glass. Thank for your helps! Is it ok to do lasik eye surgery in uk? How much will it cost?

Lasik would not be appropriate for your 14 year old daughter with a prescription of -4.75. The issue is much less her age and more the changes in her eyes.

Most people who have myopia (nearsighted, shortsighted) vision, such as your daughter, will experience fluctuations in vision until age 18-23. Lasik can only correct the refractive error of the moment and does not stop the eye from continuing its natural changes. All persons, no matter the age, need to have a minimum of two years of stable eyeglass prescription, and longer is absolutely better.

Additionally, there are some eye conditions that contraindicate Lasik that do not present their first symptoms in a person age 14, but may at a more mature age.

Some juveniles have had Lasik, however this handful of patents had very, very high refractive error and not correcting this error may have led to debilitating vision problems such as amblyopia.

For more details about Lasik and age issues, visit:

http://www.usaeyes.org/lasik/faq/lasik-age.htm

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I have -6.25 in my left and -7.00 in my right and im nearly 17. I want my eyes corrected whenever they settle down.. (hopefully when I’m 20).. i hate bad eye sight and i would really like it in the future.

I have hear about about Laser surgery, and implantable lenses and others.. which one would be the best or most ideal and what are the advantages..

P.S I live in the UK

depends on your cornea more than on your Rx:

plenty of corneal thickness: probably lasik

little bit thin cornea: probably PRK

abnormally thin cornea: probably phakic IOL ("Implantable" lenses)

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I had a check up today at laser eye clinic to check if i can have lasik again after 5 yrs as the shortsightness has returned slightly over the years on my right eye and doctor said can’t have surgery anymore as my retina is thin and the reason that the shortsightness has returned is becuase the eye ball has grown and made my vision worse slightly! my qeustion is how does that happen and why my eye ball has grown?

Yes, your eye ball can grow longer, and it has nothing to do with the laser surgery. The LASIK affects your eye’s cornea. It’s kind of like the window at the front of the eye.
The eye can get longer if you are still in a growth spurt, and still a teenager. But myopic eyes may experience lengthening eyes anyway throughout adulthood, but the rate of change may be much slower.
If you did this LASIK thing as a kid, then that was a mistake, because you should get it done when your myopia (eye prescription) is stable for a few years as an adult.

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