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eLearning Series:
Lasik Eye Surgery Questions & Answers
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Lasik Eye Surgery:
Latest FDA News
In
September of 2005 the FDA (Food and Drug Administration)
approved a new custom lasik procedure. This
procedure can treat a number of patients previously ineligible
for the surgery. This procedure can treat high myopia, or nearsightedness.
Nearsightedness occurs when the eye is too long and light rays
focus in front on the retina instead of focusing on the retina.
Some of the symptoms of nearsightedness are blurred distant
vision, eye strain, and squinting. You may also have a hard
time seeing at night. This problem is easily fixed with glasses.
Contact lenses can also be an answer if the problem is not
too severe. But many people do not want to be inconvenienced
by the hassles of glasses or contacts. People want the freedom
to get up in the morning and just see. That’s all. No contacts.
No glasses. They just want pure vision. That’s all they want.
New breakthroughs in technology are happening all the time.
These breakthroughs in lasik technology have changed people’s
life. It has made their lives better. It has improved the quality
of life that was once unattainable.
The
FDA approved a lasik procedure to treat patients with astigmatism. Astigmatism is the effect of the eye being shaped
like a football instead of round like a baseball. Light rays
are focused on two points on the retina instead of just one.
This deformity will result in blurred vision, double vision,
and shadows on letters when reading. This deformity has been
a problem for decades. Up until recently it has prevented some
people from getting contact lenses. Only people with slight
astigmatism were able to comfortably wear contact lenses. Breakthroughs
in contact lenses have not accommodated patients with extreme
astigmatism. But even now not all patients can be helped. But
with this new breakthrough in lasik, patients can have their
eyes repaired to normal, or at least be repaired enough to
comfortably wear contact lenses. Either way, their vision is
enhanced and many are happy just to get rid of the glasses
and finally be able to wear contacts, or possibly nothing at
all.
Another
approved surgery allows for lasik surgery to be done on
patients with hyperopia. Hyperopia is another word for farsightedness.
This happens when light rays focus behind the retina instead
of on the retina. This results in blurred near vision. Some
patients that have sever farsightedness and have to step back
from what they are reading. Some patients required magnifying
glasses to see something that is right in front of them. Many
are embarrassed by this. They can see you 30 feet away, but
when you get right up close they can’t see you. It makes some
feel insecure and feel as though they are going blind. Though
it is easily fixed by wearing glasses to read and see things
up close, having to constantly take your glasses on and off
can be rather inconvenient, and many choose not to. Many prefer
to put their glasses on and keep them on or take them off and
keep them off. Taking them off and on is inconvenient and you
run the chance of leaving your glasses somewhere and never
finding them again. Then you have to buy a chain to put on
your glasses. Some patients find this embarrassing because
it reminds them of their grandparents. It makes them feel old,
and that is not good for morale. Eye surgery is what many people
want to fix their eye problems. Until just recently, that option
was not available to these patients.
These
fantastic breakthroughs are the result of a new laser technology. The new Visx STAR Excimer laser system was recently
approved by the Food and Drug administration. This new breakthrough
in technology allows doctors to do more than they ever could
before. Now they have the ability to reshape the eye to correct
nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism. Before this
marvelous breakthrough patients with myopia, hyperopia, and
astigmatism were not good candidates for lasik eye surgery.
Now they have something to celebrate. They can now join the
rest of the vision impaired and have the option for lasik!
FDA
studies have shown that over 98% of all patients receiving
these new procedures were seeing 20/40 or better six months
after surgery. Over 84% were seeing much better than
20/20 after six months.
Many people do not want to be inconvenienced by the hassles
of glasses or contacts. People want the freedom to get up in
the morning and just see. That’s all. No contacts. No glasses.
They just want pure vision. That’s all they want. New breakthroughs
in technology are happening all the time. These breakthroughs
in lasik technology have changed people’s life. It has made
their lives better. It has improved the quality of life that
was once unattainable.
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