Your Complete Guide to Laser Surgery

Lasik Surgery Adviser was created to explain everything you need to know about laser surgery and all the alternatives. Our goal is to enable you to have a better conversation with your eye care professional and make an informed and intelligent decision about whether refractive surgery is right for you.

If your eyes don’t focus properly – which is called a “refractive error” – your vision can be improved or even completely corrected via surgery. This type of surgery is  called ‘refractive surgery.

Basically, refractive surgery improves your vision using one of two basic methods:

1. By reshaping the cornea, which is the round, clear dome that exists at the very front of the eye.
2. By implanting a lens inside your eye.

By far, the most common type of refractive surgery is called LASIK, which stands for ‘laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis’. This involves reshaping the cornea by using a laser. It’s a procedure that is virtually painless and takes very little time to perform.

Whether your vision problem is nearsightedness, farsightedness or astigmatism, there is likely a refractive surgery technique that can help you to see better. While the safety and success rate of refractive surgery is very high, there are many different techniques and many things to take into consideration.