About LASIK Eye Surgery and Laser Vision Correction

Having to depend on glasses or contact lenses to improve your vision can be a hassle, and this is why each year, thousands of people look to LASIK eye surgery to help them see perfectly. But before you can understand how LASIK works, you need to understand why some people do not have perfect 20/20 vision.

The eye is much like a large camera lens. It allows you to see things by letting light and images come into the eyes. These images are then read and interpreted by the brain. When you don’t have perfect vision, it means that something is wrong with how the light is entering the eye. When the light that is coming into your eye reaches a curved surface, it bends in a process known as refraction. The cornea acts as a refractor, as does the retina. It is the cornea, however, that provides the focusing of the light and is what causes you to have good eyesight or bad eyesight.

If your cornea is aiming the light correctly, the light should hit the retina perfectly. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always happen and sometimes the light hits the back of the eye in the wrong place. This results in less than perfect vision that is diagnosed as nearsighted, farsighted, or astigmatic.

LASIK eye surgery is one way to adjust the eye so that it focuses the light that comes into the eye perfectly onto the retina. When doing a LASIK surgery, a surgical optometrist will anesthetize the eye that is having surgery using special eye drops. Next, a laser will be used to cut into the eye and change the curvature of the cornea, allowing the light to hit the retina properly without having to use contact lenses or glasses.

While LASIK eye surgery can seem a bit intimidating, it is a fairly safe procedure to undertake if you have a skilled LASIK eye surgeon. Best of all, it can rid you of your dependence on glasses or contact lenses by perfecting your eyesight. The procedure only takes a few short minutes, and after a week or two, a patient will generally have 20/20 vision.

For more information on LASIK as well as corneal transplant for Fuchs’ Dystrophy as well as refractive surgery vision correction and laser eye surgery technology, it is important to visit our laser vision correction office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.