BEFORE THE TREATMENT
Your doctor will examine your eyes before the operation. Your
myopia, hypermetropia and astigmatism degrees will be
determined.
Before this treatment, rigid and gas permeable contact
lenses must be removed and not wear on for 2 weeks and soft
contact lenses for 3-5 days.
This treatment is inconvenient for some eye and systemic
diseases such as rheumatismal diseases and diabetes. Your doctor
will inform you on this 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 8-9 minutes for both eyes.
After the LASIK treatment, you will obtain the best sight
you achieve 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 the treatment.
Some eye drops have to be used for a few days.
It is suggested that the treated eyes are not touched
and 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 deliquescence
effects for the first few hours.
It is useful to attend the regular checks. However,
patients do ommit the controls as the results are good.
The new eye degree achieved will change very scarcely 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 - 1 year by applying LASIK treatment
again. There is no inconvenience in repeating the treatment
this way.
Wearing near glasses is a physiological and natural
situation in persons older than 40-45 years. Therefore,
after a well performed LASIK treatment the people older than
40 naturally continue to use near glasses only for reading
or start using near 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 by
avoiding him/her to blink with a special device, the device
called microkeratom is placed in 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 diopters of
the patient. After the flap is lifted and the surface is
dried, the laser is operated. The patient has
to look at the 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
(eye tracking system). Laser works for a while with its own
computer system to correct the diopters 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 gets a new
form where the diopter is eliminated.
This new surface form, which in normal conditions can
not be seen even through a microscope, is as shown above for
the myopia.
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THE SIXTH STEP:
The
new form achieved in hypermetropia is as shown in the model
aside.
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THE SEVENTH STEP:
After the end of the operation, the flap is delicately put
back in its natural position and gets stuck on its former
position in a couple of minutes.
There is no need for stiches or a sticking material.
From now on, no myopia, hypermetropia or astigmatism degrees
will be measured on further examinations.
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