You know what a bad candidate

• The impact on the career work included – to prohibit refractive surgery?
• Cost – you can really afford this procedure?
• Medical conditions – for example, suffers from an autoimmune disease or other serious diseases? Do you have a chronic illness that might slow or alter healing?
• The conditions of the eye – have you ever been or problems with the eyes of others as the need for glasses or contact lenses?
• Take medications interfere – you steroids or other medications that could cure?
• Stable refraction – has changed the recipe in the last few years?
• High or Low refractive error – you glasses / contacts only part time? You need an unusually strong prescription?
• Pupil size – are your pupils extra large in the Sun?
• the thickness of the cornea – you have thin corneas?

Know all the risks and procedure limitations

• aggressive therapy or treatment – whether you are willing to suffer and to be more than one company able to achieve the desired result?
• May still need reading glasses – you have presbyopia?
• The results of May will not last – do you think is the last correction you will ever need? You understand that the long-term results are known?
• May permanently lose vision – you may lose some patients may experience vision or blindness?
• Development of visual symptoms – do you know about glare, halos, starburst could, etc., and driving at night is difficult?
• Contrast sensitivity – do you know your vision can be reduced in low light?
• Bilateral treatment – do you know the additional risks of treatment with both eyes?
• Patient information – you have a leaflet informing patients about laser is used for the procedure?

They know how to find the right doctor

• Experience – how many eyes has your doctor performed LASIK surgery with the laser?
• Equipment – not the doctor uses a laser approved by the FDA for the procedure must be approved?
• Information – The doctor is willing to spend the time trying to answer all your questions?
• host family is not – the doctor and follow-up care for you as a patient? Their preoperative and postoperative care by a physician, may be different from the general surgeons available.
• be comfortable – you think you know that your doctor and comfortable with an equal exchange of information?
Understanding of the expectations of the preoperative, operative and postoperative
• No contact lenses prior to evaluation and surgery – you can go for long periods without wearing contact lenses?
• Do you have a thorough examination – will drive you do not drive or work after the exam?
• Read and understand the informed consent – the doctor has a consent form to take home and answer all your questions given?
• No make-up before the possible – you go 24-36 hours without makeup prior to surgery?
• Provision of transportation – can someone go home after surgery?
• Plan a few days of rest – you can take the time to make it easier for a few days if necessary?
• Do not expect to see clearly with one for a few days – you know that you are not clear now?
• curious, that is smells, sounds of the surgery – that the physician you feel comfortable with every step of the process?
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• Be willing to take a shield eyes – you know, it is necessary to avoid having to do an eye for some time after the surgery to protect?
• Expect some pain / discomfort – Do you know how much pain to expect?
• Know when to ask for help – the problems that may occur, understand, and whether they are looking for a medical procedure?
• know when you expect to stop changing your vision is – we know the final outcome could take months?
• Make sure that before any other form of refraction is stable – if you can not achieve the desired results does not it take before an improvement in the formula has changed more than familiar?