LASIK

1 00:00:11.840 --> 00:00:13.980 Lasik or laser assisted insight. 2 00:00:14.010 --> 00:00:16.780 or Keratomalusis is laser vision 3 00:00:16.810 --> 00:00:23.340 correction performed on the cornea to remove your distance prescription. 4 00:00:23.360 --> 00:00:25.300 In other words, we are reshaping vaping 5 00:00:25.330 --> 00:00:29.180 the cornea to eliminate your eyeglass prescription. 6 00:00:29.210 --> 00:00:36.700 It is fast, painless and now found to be extremely stable over the long term. 7 00:00:36.730 --> 00:00:41.540 Millions of patients have now enjoyed being free of glasses. 8 00:00:41.570 --> 00:00:45.420 Even astronauts now are getting Lasik, 9 00:00:45.450 --> 00:00:49.780 showing the long term safety and stability. 10 00:00:49.810 --> 00:00:55.220 The technology for Lasik has greatly improved over time. 11 00:00:55.250 --> 00:01:01.540 We utilize wavefront technology where an instrument measures your eye from front 12 00:01:01.570 --> 00:01:06.620 to back for any optical aberrations or imperfections of the eye. 13 00:01:06.650 --> 00:01:11.570 When we correct your prescription at the time of the procedure, 14 00:01:11.600 --> 00:01:16.850 we're inputting the information from this instrument into the laser and attempting 15 00:01:16.880 --> 00:01:21.410 to eliminate those optical aberrations so that we make your eye, 16 00:01:21.440 --> 00:01:26.980 in terms of an optical unit, better than it was before surgery. 17 00:01:27.010 --> 00:01:29.340 In many cases, we're able to achieve 18 00:01:29.370 --> 00:01:36.340 better vision or better quality of vision after LASIK than one experienced prior 19 00:01:36.370 --> 00:01:39.850 to the surgery with their eyeglasses or contacts. 20 00:01:39.880 --> 00:01:41.780 Other advancements that have been made 21 00:01:41.810 --> 00:01:47.820 with Lasik are the construction of the flap that is done during LASIG. 22 00:01:47.850 --> 00:01:50.540 In Lasik, we make a flap in. 23 00:01:50.570 --> 00:01:54.780 The cornea, lift the flap up, use a laser to reshape the cornea 24 00:01:54.810 --> 00:01:59.020 to remove your prescription, put the flap back down. 25 00:01:59.050 --> 00:02:07.100 That flap self seals requires no stitches, and healing is extraordinarily quick. 26 00:02:07.130 --> 00:02:16.380 Oftentimes, patients are seeing 90% improvement within a day of surgery. 27 00:02:16.410 --> 00:02:18.220 When we make the flap, there are. 28 00:02:18.250 --> 00:02:20.380 Two ways that we can make the flap. 29 00:02:20.410 --> 00:02:22.580 When Lacey first came out, we utilized. 30 00:02:22.610 --> 00:02:27.380 An instrument called the Microkertome that had a blade in it. 31 00:02:27.410 --> 00:02:33.170 That technology is still utilized now, but we can also use a laser to make the flap. 32 00:02:33.200 --> 00:02:37.380 So now we utilize two lasers to perform the procedure, 33 00:02:37.410 --> 00:02:45.180 and that's called Bladeless Lasik or Blade free Lasik or All Laser Lasik. 34 00:02:45.210 --> 00:02:48.220 When we use a laser to make. 35 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:50.180 The flap, there are a number of benefits 36 00:02:50.210 --> 00:02:55.700 that go along with LASIG less dry eyes and more precise flap. 37 00:02:55.730 --> 00:03:00.610 The strength of the cornea after surgery is much stronger. 38 00:03:00.640 --> 00:03:05.100 After a laser flap versus a microkeratome flap, 39 00:03:05.130 --> 00:03:09.820 the bed underneath the flap is usually smoother, 40 00:03:09.850 --> 00:03:15.100 and that's the area where the laser to reshape the cornea is applied. 41 00:03:15.130 --> 00:03:20.900 So it is conceivable that a smoother bed results in superior vision. 42 00:03:20.930 --> 00:03:24.060 If you'd like more information on Lacey, 43 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:26.880 please call my office and make an appointment for a free evaluation.