Handling with Care Laser Eye Surgery



Posted: Thursday, January 28, 2010

by Gavin Conway

Sport enthusiasts know the difficulties of partaking in their sport if they suffer from any kind of impaired vision that requires glasses or contact lenses in order for them to take part which is a great burden.

Laser eye surgery has stepped in to revolutionize the sports industry's contenders. People whom before found it daunting to practice certain sports can now be rest assured that after having laser eye surgery done, they can do what they love best without the worry and discomfort they had before.

Today it is possible to treat all near and far sighted problems with refractive laser surgery. In fact, more than 2 million people world wide have experienced this new method of corrective eye surgery with very high rates of success, never having to wear glasses or contact lenses for the rest of their lives. New advancements in laser eye surgery allow for the entire procedure to be preformed without a human hand involved as computers determine the exact laser incision calculations the entire time, known today as 'No Touch' laser eye surgery. Other types of laser eye surgery involve scraping away at the cornea and cutting the cornea as with lasik which involves instrumentation being used.

Like other refractive procedure, 'No Touch' changes the curvature of the cornea and allows light rays to focus properly on to the retina. No touch was developed be one of the leading refractive laser eye surgeons today, Dr Don Johnson. The term comes from the fact the cornea is never touched from any surgical instrument. The top layer of skin called the epithelium is removed by laser light. Once that if complete, the vision correction is done by additional pulses of laser light are directed onto the cornea thus changes its shape along with the patients vision.

The attractive thing about the new 'No Touch' laser eye surgery procedure is in its simplicity for the patient. A few numbing eye drops and a device to hold open the eyelids are all that is needed as the patient lays down under a machine that pulses a gentle ray of light into their eye.

Amazingly, after the surgery which takes a matter of minutes for each eye, patients experience visual improvement straight afterwards by way of seeing things that they in no other way could see without wearing their glasses or contact lenses.

Other welcomed benefits include healing time being reduced, a smoother healing surface thanks to the specialized computer formula which Minimizes complications and produces more accurate visual results and above all being the safest refractive laser eye treatment available today.

As with any surgical procedure there is a small list of risks involved when having this procedure preformed which are as follows: Under/over correction, haze formation and infections but the incidents of these problems occurring is very low and these can generally be resolved by a second treatment if necessary.

Copyright (c) 2010 Jonah Myers

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Jonah Myers does research about popular goods and services where the demand for the information is high. The information about the trends that he follows he then publishes on various web sites catering to those particular trends. The latest web sites he has contributed to are www.cheaplasertreatment.com which helps people looking for not only the best value but best qualities treatments available in the market and also www.dublinlaser.com.
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