Laser Eye Surgery Turns 21

This month marks the 21^st anniversary of the first ever laser eye surgery procedure. This first procedure, conducted in Germany in 1988, ushered in the start of a revolutionary time period for vision correction surgery.

In the past 21 years, more than 30 million people around the world have benefited from laser eye surgery procedures such as LASIK, PRK, and LASEK. Laser vision correction has been invaluable to many people whose poor vision adversely affected their daily lives.

LASIK is a procedure that uses an excimer laser to reshape your cornea in order to improve your vision. For ideal candidates, it is an excellent option to correct refractive errors such as nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism.

Recent advances in LASIK technology have made the procedure more reliable, resulting in a very high satisfaction rate among patients (approximately 95% of LASIK patients are satisfied with their results). Today, custom LASIK procedures using Wavefront technology enable your ophthalmologist to bring your vision very close to 20/20 while eliminating many higher order aberrations such as glare, haloes, and starbursts.

Please contact The LASIK Directory today to find a qualified laser eye surgeon near you.