No More Four Eyes

 If you are sick of wearing glasses or fiddling with contacts,
you should consider laser eye surgery.

Laser surgery to correct your vision is a well tested procedure
but is not for everyone so do not enter into it lightly. Done as
outpatient surgery, most people are back to their normal
routines in a couple of days and some report improved vision
upon waking the next day!

There are a couple of procedures avaialbe and each has different
recovery and vision improvement times - you should discuss each
option with your doctor to find out which is best for your
needs. 

Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK) is the most well
known. In this procedure, a flap is cut in the cornea and then
tissue is removed to reshape it. This surgery is fast and has a
quick healing time of 2 days with immediate improvement in sight.

Photo Refractive Keratectomy (PRK) is the oldest of the
procedures. This surgery reshapes the cornea by removing cells
from the surface. The healing time is quite long – a month or
more and there is a gradual improvement of vision over time.

Conductive Keratoplasty (CK) is a fairly new procedure. This
surgery takes under ½ hour and has a very quick recovery time.
It uses radio frequency energy to reshape the cornea and restore
vision. This new procedure uses no laser or knife and is quite
promising.

Although fairly safe, laser eye surgery is not fool-proof and in
some cases may not work or in the worst case, you could end up
with worse eye sight than before the procedure. Not everyone is
a good candidate for the procedure and those with certain
medical conditions such as glaucoma, diabetes or other eye
disease should discuss this option with their doctor.