Cirujano Lasik

This might come as a surprise to you, but a normal LASIK surgery only takes about 15 to 40 seconds, depending on the extent of correction necessary. Of course the time will increase if you have a worse case, but it shouldn’t take longer than 3-5 minutes. It’s that easy and fast.

The recover time is also fast. The patient could even be driven home after about 30 minutes to an hour. Just remember to follow the doctor’s advice during the following days to further speed up your recovery.

The normal recovery time span is 3 days to about a week, also of course depending on the case and the degree of correction needed to be done on the patient. By then, you will have noticed improvement in your eyesight, and after a week, you will have felt completely fine, and you could go back to doing your usual activities.

During the recovery time however, you should keep in mind what the doctor says about washing your eyes and not being directly exposed to direct sunlight. Little things like these are sometimes ignored, but ignoring these could pose a problem or complication with your recovery. So if you want to be well faster, follow the instructions strictly.

A lot of people have asked this question A LOT of times from the initial consult until minutes before the actual surgery. But they can’t be blamed. The word surgery often scares the bejesus out of most patients, and some patients just can’t handle the thought of someone poking them in the eye.

What patients have to remember though is that they are dealing with qualified and skilled surgeons—unless this is true, in which case they are entitled to panic and doubt. During the surgery, the surgeon has his foot stepping on a pedal that controls the beam that goes in the eye. Surgeons are skilled and are sensitive enough to remove their foot on the pedal when they feel the slightest movement from the patient, hence preventing any risk to the surgery. After the patient has relaxed once again, the surgeon repositions the beam to the target in the cornea and proceeds to finish the surgery.

LASIK surgery is often advised for patients who have severe refractive errors. Misconceptions arise when a lot of patients think that LASIK surgery is the answer of every refractive error they might have, no matter how minor it is.

But, talking to your doctor and having considered all your options, there will be a possibility that LASIK won’t be the best option for you.

For those patients who only have low to moderate refractive errors, doctors can prescribe them to undergo other procedures like radial keratotomy or PRK which doesn’t require the use of laser.

But in the case that LASIK surgery is the best option for them, there are a lot of advantages in having LASIK surgery. First of all, recovery is faster when you undergo LASIK surgery than any other type of surgery such as PRK. Second of all, in only a matter of a week, patients can be able to see well enough and continue with their routines such as driving and doing work and chores.

Before undergoing LASIK surgery, or any surgery for that matter, it is very important to know and understand the different risks involved in the procedure. By knowing the risks you can prepare yourself for the possible consequences and necessary actions that you would have to do should you be unlucky enough to experience certain complications because of the surgery.

However, it is safe to say that LASIK surgery doesn’t entail any life-threatening complications, but there may be cases where minor complications will happen.

Infection and delayed healing:

This basically means what it states. An infection in the cornea which could result in delay of healing. But this rarely happens in LASIK surgery, and during which cases when it does happen, there are no long-term effects in the healing process.

Undercorrection/Overcorrection:

In LASIK surgery, this usually happens because the eyes still try to adjust to the procedure, and sometimes, you would have to undergo a second procedure to achieve the desired vision for you.

Regression:

This is similar to undercorrection when a patient still has a vision problem over a few months. When this happens, a second procedure is done to achieve the desired results of the patient.