Modifying eyesight has been done since ancient times when a surgeon would use a brass pipe to drain fluids from the eye that may have been causing blurriness of vision. While the concepts that characterized the eye surgeries of the old world have remained mostly unchanged, many new ideas and numerous new techniques have brought a dose of modern thinking to the process. Today, having your eyesight modified so that you can see better has become a far safer and more efficient process guided by scientific method instead of merely a surgeon’s intuitions.
For example, the use of blades has largely fallen out of favor. Particularly in eye surgeries the laser has become far more popular than traditional blades. Lasers are an extremely effective method of surgery that many physicians have been using for decades. The very name LASIK actually derives from the use of lasers, which make eye surgery a far safer, faster and more precise process. In recent years, the way lasers are used has even changed substantially.
A New Method
One of these ways is the Visx Star 4, which is a highly advanced form of laser that is guided entirely by a computer. With a computer mechanism that can plot three different dimensions of where to go, the surgeon can peel back a microscopic flap of skin and remove what needs to be removed in order to alter your eyesight in a preferential way. With better eyesight, you can do a lot of things that you could not before. With Visx, you can experience faster healing time, a less physically challenging surgery and a more precise type of vision correction than you ever could before. Using Visx, the entire world of eye surgery has changed for the better.
Don’t See It, See Better
Visx Star is an IR laser, which means it uses the infrared spectrum to alter your eyesight. While not everyone knows this, lasers can make the necessary changes without your eye to affect your eyesight for the better. In fact, this type of laser is very carefully controlled and it can actually keep you from instinctively looking away in the presence of what you perceive as brightness, which can be a downside to visible laser beams.
Plotting Relatively and Absolutely
Absolute plotting refers to the points that a surgeon and technician can enter into a computer in order to guide the laser there. Relative plotting refers to points that can shift based upon the position of other points. Due to the fact that an eye is a living piece of a person’s body, both of these types of plotting are useful when performing laser eye surgery. Even the smallest shift in position can be the difference between a very successful surgery and one that could have gone much better. Because of this Visx is an excellent technology due to its ability to shift along with changes to the eye’s position in real time.
Sugarland Eye & Laser Center leads in providing premium LASIK technologies to Houston, Sugar Land, and the surrounding region. The Center’s award-winning medical director introduced revolutionary technologies such as iLASIK to the region. This technology is used by NASA astronauts, Navy SEALS and Air Force fighter pilots. At Sugarland Eye & Laser Center, you can now receive the same treatment. For more information, please call (281) 240-0478 or visit us at www.houston-lasik.com.
About the Author
Amjad Khokhar, M.D. is Chief LASIK Surgeon at Sugarland Eye & Laser Center. Add Dr. Khokhar on Google+ here.
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