The Eye Care Blog

The Advanced Medical Optics received the FDA approval for the iFS Advanced Femtosecond Laser. It is claimed to be capable of creating a corneal flap in less than 10 seconds. The laser is designed to create a virtually effortless flap lift. Thus the treatment will be helpful in increasing the biochemical stability of [...]

The Queensland health Minister Mr Stephen Robertson has supported the new strategy that is likely to be in favor of the patients of cataract surgery at the Herbey Bay Hospital. The strategy will be helpful for patients who have to wait for long hours for the surgery. From now the patients will be treated under [...]

As opposed to the belief, the LASIK treatment, rarely gives the patients a trouble free lifestyle. It brings many problems with it. Recalls a patient who has once opted for the treatment.

Lasik Surgery (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis) is the most advanced eye surgery. According to Golfer Tiger Woods “It is a life changing”. NASA is now allowing astronauts to undergo this procedure, and in the U.S. military, nearly 112,500 personnel, have undergone this surgery, including pilots.

LASIK treatment, like any other surgery, can in rare cases cause some complications. Since its invention in 1988 in the US, LASIK surgery is widely known, used and accepted worldwide as it rarely brings serious problems. Selecting a reputable eye surgeon is the single best thing you can do to ensure successful outcome of your [...]

Scientists have conducted a study to analyze the results of Aberrometry guided (Inter wave) LASIK and the standard LASIK surgery based on refractive measures. The study shows that in both of the above cases, though acuity and refractive results are equal in both the cases, the Inter Wave treatment is superior in Mesopic vision.

Laser assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) is painless surgery, but it has few complications. These few complications include vitreoretinal complications and anterior segment complications.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to review whether LASIK, laser eye surgery, is really improving patients lives. FDA says that the move is in response to a number of concerns raised about patient satisfaction with the procedure.

In UK the cost of Lasik Surgery (Laser aided eye correction for short-sightedness, long-sightedness and astigmatism) is dropping across the board, in some clinic as much as 80% for correction of short-sightedness. Recent pricing changes for laser eye surgery across the UK means people can pay nearly £4,000 more to get rid of their glasses [...]