Here's some important information about lasik surgery:
LASIK Surgery Many people love the idea of getting rid of their glasses and contacts, but they cringe at the thought of having a procedure performed on their eyes. We’re hoping that we can help people overcome their fears by providing accurate and helpful information about LASIK and other refractive procedures. With time tested technology and fine-tuned surgical skill, this procedure is one of the safest, most effective eye treatments available. And we believe the benefits far outweigh the risks.
What is LASIK surgery exactly? It’s the use of a laser beam to modify the shape of your cornea such that your vision will improve. So let’s look at how our vision works, why it might be less than perfect, and how LASIK surgery changes it. How does our vision work? It all depends on light. Our eyes are balls, made such that they receive light rays on the front side and bend them (refract thContacts or LASIK?em) to focus on the inside back surface of the eye (the retina). It’s very like the way a traditional camera directs light onto a film inside it.
So the object from which the light rays have been reflected to our eyeballs shows up as a little image on the retina, a tiny upside down picture of itself. There’s a large nerve at the back of each eye called the optic nerve which then transmits this image information to our brain and our brain understands and interprets it and tells us, “That there is a tree!” So why, for some of us, does that tree look blurry or indistinct or distorted? Because the image information sent by the optic nerve was deficient in some way so the brain didn’t receive enough information to interpret correctly, and maybe it told us, “That there is a telegraph pole!” That happens when the cornea isn’t perfectly round and the light rays are not refracted correctly, so they don’t form a perfect image. This is where LASIK surgery enters the picture, so to speak.
