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The patient of Lasik surgery has two main duties regarding his or her eyes: firstly to choose a responsible, skilled surgeon, which should not be too problematic and secondly, to take care of his eyes after the surgical procedure by following the guidance of the surgeon on post-operative care. This second part is very necessary and should not be taken lightly.

The post-operative supervision process is not a problem, but if you are worried about it, you could enquire of your surgeon what it will entail before the operation. The physician or a nurse will be able to explain the procedure of supervision to you in detail or they will give you a pamphlet.

There might be some peculiar sight aberrations for a few days after the operation, some of which are fairly standard. One of the most common aberrations that are standard for a few days are halos around lights.

However, you should be certain that you understand the difference between what is normal and so no grounds for concern and what should be reported instantly

There are different Lasik procedures and the procedures are advancing all the time so it is not possible to give precise details in this article. Moreover, the shape of the eyes and the causes for deteriorating eyesight are individual to each patient.

Some of the advice that your Lasik surgeon might give for your post-operative eye care may include the following, although different doctors might have their own advice.

The first thing is to bear in mind that you have just had an operation including anaesthetic. There may not have been any blood but it was surgery all the same.

All patients are required to take it easy after an operation and you will be no exception. If you had had an operation on your knee, you would use it as little as possible for a time and the same is helpful advice for your eye.

Attempt to sleep for a couple of hours after the operation or at least close your eyes and rest. Infection is the chief concern, so do not poke or rub your eye and do not strain it by trying out your recently improved vision by reading or watching TV.

If you have to entertain yourself in this fashion wear an eye patch. Your surgeon will almost certainly have given you a stiff plastic eye guard, which you ought to wear at all times.

Some surgeons will warn against allowing water into your eye for a couple of days, which means washing just from the neck down, no showering, no going out in the rain and categorically no swimming.

Be wary of dazzling light, it cannot damage your eye but it does hurt. Your world will get much brighter after the surgery and looking at a light bulb can be painful. Be careful of watching moving traffic when the sun is shining, a car window can catch the sun and reflect it back into your eye all of a sudden.

You will be given eye drops so do not fail to use them. Lasik surgery can dry your eyes out, if this happens they might be able to give you alternative or supplemental drops.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on a number of topics, but is now concerned with wet macular degeneration treatment. If you want to know more, please go to our website at Macular Degenerative Disease

We are under immense pressure not to look old, not to look our age. One of the best compliments people of more than 21 years think that they can receive is: ‘Really? You do not look it!’ To some extent this mania for a youthful look has always been with us, but the pressure has ratcheted up due to films and television.

Film stars and pharmaceutical firms unscrupulously team up to persuade us that we have to have this surgery as well in order to be popular. What they do not tell you is that the pharmaceutical companies have paid the film stars to have free treatment and then paid (or sponsored) the chat programmes that so blatantly advertise them.

And ageism is rife too, both among the young, whose worst insults normally have the word ‘old’ included and among employers who can not wait to get rid of employees at 65 after a lifetime of service. Governments or at least some governments are just as bad, penalizing pensioners with a meager salary after fifty years of paying taxes.

People used to grow old gracefully, now it is a sin. There is a long list of ‘improvements’ that you can work your way through: face lift, liposuction, hair transplants, dentures and several others, but the one that actually makes sense to me is sight improvement by whatever means works.

We live in a beautiful world and it is a shame that whilst we are at the correct stage in our life to enjoy it - that is while we have more time, more money and have become more philosophical, we begin to go blind. At the same time as your grandchildren begin arriving, your eyesight begins to go.

There are many factors why you could begin losing your eyesight besides only old age, but old age does play a role in some of them as well.

Macular degeneration is usually known as age-related macular degeneration, but there is a rare kind that affects the young. There are two types wet and dry. The dry form is less severe, but the wet kind is more easily treated.

Cataracts are thought to be age-related too, but I had premature senile cataracts 20 years early. Luckily these are easily treated too with only a few minutes of surgery. Glaucoma is a vicious one, which can leave you totally blind, if you do not catch it soon enough and have it treated.

The key to success with all of these eyesight impairments is tackling them early. If you suspect that anything is not right with your eyes, go to a GP or optician immediately. Do not be fooled by quack cures that you might see advertised on late night TV or in the small ads. They ought to get banned.

Eye exercises and eye drops are fine for healthy eyes, but they will not help you if you have a problem, only a fully qualified expert can do that. These advertisers prey on individuals who either do not have the money for surgery or who are frightened of it and there are lots of them around too.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on a number of topics, but is now concerned with macular degeneration glasses. If you would like to know more, please visit our site at Macular Degenerative Disease

Lasik surgery has greatly improved the vision of millions of individuals worldwide. It has turned the visually impaired into sighted individuals who are capable of seeing their children again and contributing to the family’s earnings by working. Two things that millions thought they would never be able to do again.

However, Lasik eye surgery has not been sitting on its laurels. Far from it, Lasik surgery techniques are being improved all the time. One such enhancement is Wavefront Technology. Wavefront Technology with relation to Lasik eye surgery is used to more accurately map the patient’s eyeball, which makes more accurate surgery feasible.

This is of immense importance because eyeballs are not all the same shape. They are like hands, superficially they all look the same, but once you get down to particulars, they are not. There are all shapes sizes and proportions. The same is true for eyes.

The more precise the map of the eye, the more chance that the surgeon has of giving you the best vision possible, considering the precise problems that you have in your particular case. Wavefront Technology helps the surgeon achieve this.

Wavefront Technology is really a technology that has been adapted from astronomy. in astronomical telescopes it is imperative that the lenses are as perfect as possible, because at high magnification, even the very slightest impairment would lead to huge distortions, which in turn would render the telescope practically useless.

Astronomers were utilizing this technology in the 1970’s, so it was already quite advanced when some bright spark saw that it could become modified for use in eye surgery too. Wavefront Technology was born and taken on board by Lasik and other eye surgeons with great expectations.

In fact, the bright spark who recognized the possible value of this piece of astronomical technology was a German physician called Josef Bille who began using it in his practice.

He gradually improved and adapted the sensors and announced it to the Lasik manufacturers in 1997. This in turn allowed the manufacturers of Lasik apparatus to adapt Wavefront Technology to their own apparatus.

Wavefront Technology is extremely complicated in design and technology but also highly simple to understand. The Wavefront machine sends a flat sheet of light (called a wavefront) through the eye to the retina, which reflects it back to the Wavefront machine.

The Wavefront machine compares the two, measures the imperfections, decides what has to be done to correct them and guides the laser to the correct spot in order to accomplish the corrections. As simple as that!

However, the geniuses who created and developed Wavefront Technology did not give up there. They have their machine send in multiple wavefronts from multiple angles so that the computer can build up a three dimensional picture for even more accuracy.

There are now well over 60 patterns that can be automatically corrected by a Lasik laser guided by Wavefront Technology. So, if you have any issues with long or short sightedness, create an appointment to see your Lasik surgeon as soon as they can.

Owen Jones, the author of this piece, writes on a variety of topics, but is now concerned with macular degeneration glasses. If you would like to know more, please visit our site at Macular Degenerative Disease

I have never had Lasik eye surgery, although I have had both of my human lenses replaced with plastic ones. However, I wanted to help a friend recount his story of Lasik eye surgery, because I know from my own experience that there is a lot of nonsense talked about having eye surgery of any kind.

I robustly urge anyone who is thinking about having cataracts removed, Lasik eye surgery or absolute lens replacement to go ahead and have it done as soon as they can. There will be no looking back, I promise you and you will live in a brighter world again that you had not noticed had been getting slowly but surely ever dimmer.

I shall name my friend Fred to make it easier for me to tell his story and that of numerous others who have been in a equivalent position to him. Fred wore specs all his life or from the time that he was in the Navy doing his national conscription service at any rate.

He got used to this predicament, but was growing alarmed at the speed that his spectacles were growing in power year on year and the increasing dependency he had on them.

After months of worry and chatting to ‘friends’ in bars, he decided to go talk to the only other person whose opinion actually mattered - the Lasik surgeon. He was quite nervous that they would say that his eyesight was too far impaired, but he was also worried that they would say he could undergo the operation because he had a dread of anyone doing anything to his eyes which could rob him of the little bit of vision that he still had.

The surgeon said that both of his eyes could benefit from surgery, one maybe a little more than the other, but that he would definitely still need spectacles for the rest of his life, albeit weaker ones than he was using now. In effect, the surgeon was stating that he could restore most of Fred’s long-distance vision but that at his age, 63, he would still need reading specs.

Fred turned up on the day of the first operation having not been to the pub and having had an early night. In his circumstances they operated on one eye at a time with a week in between the operations. They began both session by putting drops in his eye. These drops dilate and numb the eye although the eyeball does not actually feel any pain.

The operations lasted around three minutes each, but Fred is not certain how much of that was ‘laser time’. He said there was a sensation of intense white light, but no pain whatsoever. He was told to rest in the waiting room for thirty minutes afterwards and then he went home.

On his physician’s advice he had taken a friend with him, because your old glasses will not fit on top of the protective shield on your treated eye. This shield had to be worn for 24 hours to prevent Fred from poking or rubbing his eye inadvertently.

Fred had taken the next day off work, but he says there was no need and he did not bother the next time. Fred’s eyes have improved hundreds of percent and sometimes he can even read without specs as well.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on a variety of topics, but is now concerned with macular degeneration glasses. If you would like to know more, please visit our site at Macular Degenerative Disease