Going for LASIK Eye Surgery? Here Is What You Should Know. JP Eye Hospital
LASIK stands for laser assisted in situ keratomileusis. Also commonly referred to as laser eye surgery or laser vision correction it is a type of refractive surgery for the correction of various refractive visual defects such as myopia, hypermetropia, and astigmatism and so on. During the surgical procedure, the ophthalmologist reshapes the cornea of the patient to enhance the visual acuity. This procedure is done through microkeratome. This procedure helps to change the shape of the patient's cornea with the help of an excimer laser used by an ophthalmologist to cut down a flap of cornea eventually leaving a hinge in the end the flap is then folded to enter the stroma which is the middle section of the eye, then a laser pulse is directed towards the stroma to reshape the cornea and after that the flap is placed back in its original position. Lasik surgery changes the size and shape of the cornea permanently. As cataract surgery involves the replacement of a real lens with an ar...