Lasik Eye Surgery – What is It?

Lasik eye surgery is where you can have your eye-sight surgically enhanced or corrected using laser surgery. Most adults rely on their eye-sight more than any other sense & the types of deterioration that can be suffered from are many & varied. Thankfully laser surgery can correct such problems as short & long sightedness, astigmatism, presbyopia & cataracts.

People with short sightedness can see things at short distances but have challenges seeing things further away. Similarly people with long sightedness are fine with long distance but have difficulty seeing things a short distance away. Both these problems are caused by the lens & the cornea being either too strong or too weak & are correctable by using Lasik eye surgery.

Astigmatism is where you’re both short & long sighted at the same time & the lens throws images both in front of & behind the retina at the same time causing constant blurring.

Presbyopia is the natural aging process that occurs in all eyes. How many people do you know that once they reach their early forties or so, need to look at some kind of reading glasses as they have a challenge focusing? With age the lens in your eye becomes less & less flexible. This condition is usually picked up as you’ll experience the need to hold things further & further away from your eyes in order to read it.

Cataracts are usually suffered by people over the age of 55. In fact 60% of those over the age of sixty-five suffer from this condition. Cataracts result from the natural break down of the protein structure which forms the lens causing the lens to become cloudy & hard to see from. Once the lens becomes cloudy, the light can not enter the eye & vision becomes very blurred.

All of the above conditions can be actually treated simply with Lasik eye surgery, all you really need to do now is find the right provider to suit your needs.

The information needed to decide whether laser eye surgery is right for you is available at our website. There you’ll find the pros & cons of this type of corrective lasik eye surgery & help you to decide on your course of action.