Sunday, September 2, 2007

Lasik Surgery: Best Way To Remove Contact Lense

Learning about LASIK: LASIK is a surgical procedure for reducing or removing a person's dependency on glasses or contact lenses. In fact LASIK is the vision correction surgery, (i.e. eye surgeries for improving vision, refractive surgery). LASIK stands for “Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis”. This procedure permanently changes the shape of the cornea. A knife microkeratome, is used to cut a flap in the cornea. A hinge is left at one end of this flap. The flap is folded back revealing the stroma, the middle section of the cornea. Pulses from a computer-controlled laser vaporize a portion of the stroma and the flap is replaced. a laser is used to reshape the cornea to alter the way light rays enter the eye for achieving focus. LASIK, which requires more corneal View the rest of this article


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