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BEFORE THE TREATMENT |
Your doctor will examine your eyes before the operation. Your degrees of myopia, hypermetropia, and astigmatism will be determined.
Before the treatment, rigid and gas permeable contact lenses must be removed and not worn for 2 weeks and soft contact lenses for 3 to 5 days.
This treatment is inconvenient for some eye and systemic diseases such as rheumatismal diseases and diabetes. Your doctor will tell you about these issues before the treatment. However, if you have a special disease or a special medicine you have to use, inform your doctor as usual.
The LASIK treatment will take 8 to 9 minutes for both eyes.
After the LASIK treatment, you have the best sight, the same as you had using glasses or contact lenses. The laser treatment will replace the glasses or contact lenses. The laser treatment cures the refraction defects of the eyes (myopia, astigmatism, and hypermetropia). It is not a treatment method for eye diseases. |
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AFTER THE TREATMENT |
There is no need to patch the eyes after treatment.
Some eye drops have to be used for a few days.
It is suggested that the treated eyes are not touched and that no bath is taken during the first 24 hours.
After 24 hours, you can return to your daily life.
It is normal to feel some stinging and teariness effects for the first few hours.
It is useful to attend regular checkups. However, patients do skip monitoring since the results are good.
The new eye degree achieved will change only slightly or will not change at all after the 3rd month.
The most significant complication in LASIK treatment is not to achieve the desired adjustment. This situation can be adjusted after 6 months to a year by applying LASIK treatment again. There is no inconvenience in repeating the treatment this way.
Wearing nearsighted glasses is a physiological and natural situation for persons older than 40 to 45. Therefore, after a well-performed LASIK treatment, people older than 40 naturally continue to use nearsighted glasses only for reading or start using nearsighted glasses in some special situations. Ask your doctor for information on this issue if you are 40 or older.
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THE FIRST STEP :
After preparing the patient with a device to avoid blinking, another device called a Microkeratome is placed at the starting point on the surface of the eye.
The automatic movement of this device is designed to lift a thin layer of 160 microns (flap) from the surface of the eye. |
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THE SECOND STEP :
The flap is delicately lifted using a special device after being prepared as a hinged item with an uncut part at its edge.
The surface beneath is examined and prepared for the laser by being cleaned and dried. |
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THE THIRD STEP :
The flap is delicately lifted using a special device after being prepared as a hinged item with an uncut part at its edge.
The surface beneath is examined and prepared for the laser by being cleaned and dried.
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THE FOURTH STEP :
The laser has been previously set according to the dioptres of the patient. After the flap is lifted and the surface is dried, the laser operates. The patient has to look at a small red light. It does not matter if the patient makes small moves with his eyes during the laser strokes because the laser is designed to capture these moves with an eye tracking system. The laser works for a while with its own computer system to correct the dioptres and the operation ends. As every probability is previously considered, the surgeon can control the laser strokes with a foot pedal when necessary. |
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THE FIFTH STEP :
When the laser operation is finished, the eye surface has a new form where the dioptre is eliminated.
This new surface form, which under normal conditions cannot be seen even through a microscope, is shown above for the myopia.
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THE SIXTH STEP :
The new form achieved in hypermetropia is shown on the model. |
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THE SEVENTH STEP :
After the end of the operation, the flap is delicately put back to its natural position and becomes stuck to its former position in a couple of minutes.
There is no need for stitches or a sticking material. From now on, no degrees of myopia, hypermetropia, or astigmatism will be measured in further examinations. |
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