Lasik Eye Surgery FAQ

After LASIK Can I Bathe or Take a Shower?


Your LASIK surgeon will advise the individual, but typically you can bathe the same day as the treatment but you should not shower 2 days after treatment. As always avoid soap or water directly into the eyes. Rub your eyes during the first months after the operation.

 

Types of LASIK Doctors

Types of LASIK eye surgeon in laser vision correction

It is important of LASIK eye surgery that different types of LASIK doctors understand very cautious when laser surgery with a view to correcting defects of vision. Absolutely, there are 2 types of LASIK doctors who may be involved in your laser vision.

Ophthalmologists

Ophthalmologists are eye doctors who specialize in treating medical and surgical eye and visual system and the prevention of eye diseases and injuries. You can either medical doctors (MD) or doctors of osteopathy (DO). Ophthalmologists are eye doctors and eye surgeons.

LASIK surgeons are ophthalmologists, eye doctors and eye surgery performed laser to correct vision problems, such as LASIK. In general, physicians LASIK finished performing the operation, four years before the medical education undergraduate, four years of medical school, a one-year internship and three or more years of specialized medical training and surgical eye care as a resident in ophthalmology.

Many have then to communion specialized training to be a specialist in diseases and surgery of diseases of the cornea and retinal surgery or refractive surgery, LASIK specialists.Ophthalmologists so that they are authorized by an authority Public to diagnose, treat and manage conditions affecting the eye and visual system with blurred vision, eye exams, medical and surgical eye care, diagnosis and treatment of diseases and complications that are caused by visual other systemic diseases such as diabetes.

Optometrists

Opticians are eye doctors who are trained to examine, diagnose, treat and manage a certain vision and health problems due to eye diseases and disorders of the eye and visual system.

They are doctors of optometry (O.D.). Generally have LASIK doctors, opticians have four years of pre-optometry, teaching undergraduate four-year land Schoo optomtery purchased separately, some optometrists have completed a year stay in an optional field specialized. Optometrists, physicians generally have LASIK additional training in hospitals, clinics or centers of LASIK eye surgery.

 

Will I Need Reading Glasses After the Treatment?

Generally, patients under 40 years of age read well without glasses after lasik eye surger. Patients over 40 may need magnification to read the fine print. Presbyopia is the term that refers to the natural weakening of the muscles by focusing that occurs in our early to mid-40s, forcing us to need the magnification that reading glasses provide. The LASIK eye surgery does not correct or prevent presbyopia. We will also be happy to discuss another option called monovision.

 

Is the Effect of LASIK Eye Surgery Permanent?

Yes. After an initial period of recovery two to three months, the treatment effect throughout life.

 

How Long Does LASIK Take?

In our LASIK is performed as an office procedure in the comfort and convenience of a series of eye surgery excimer laser. The treatment lasts about 5 to 7 minutes per eye, about 15 minutes for both eyes.