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Corrective Eye Surgery Type

In today’s society, many are looking for the convenience and benefits of corrective eye surgery. The medicine of eye surgery has advanced to a point that many people are both eligible and good candidates for having their vision corrected surgically. There are many different types of eye surgeries and the type you will receive will depend on the eye problems you have and how severe those problems..... More on Lasik Surgery Miami

The Original LASIK Surger

The original laser eye surgery or PRK is one of the most common surgical vision corrections. Photorefractive Keratectomy has been grouped under the umbrella term "laser eye surgery." Each surgery is a little different from the other and improvements have been made to all techniques to allow a patient to show improvement in a few days. LASIK patients have a quicker recovery time and a more rapid..... More on Lasik Surgery Miami

Cataract eye surger

A cataract is an eye condition that is believed to cause fifty percent of blindness around the globe. A cataract is actually an opaque material that is impenetrable to light; it covers the lens of the eye and makes it look cloudy. Cataracts are more common in the older generation and many people do not know they have this condition because the loss of vision gradually builds up over time. Many pe..... More on Lasik Surgery Miami

Corneal eye surger

The cornea is the clear tissue that sits in front of the pupil and iris. When a cornea becomes diseased or damaged then surgery is the treatment involved, but how do you know if your cornea is damaged and what process follows? Like any eye condition a person will notice a slight affect to their vision and this will normally give them the push needed to go and visit an optician. History of corne..... More on Lasik Surgery Miami

Glaucoma eye surger

Glaucoma affects many people around the world and is one of the leading causes of blindness. In the United States alone one in every ten thousand children born has Glaucoma with African–Americans being the most likely to suffer with this condition, but what is Glaucoma? Facts about Glaucoma Glaucoma is not one, but a group of diseases that attack the optic nerve, the end result of Glaucoma is lo..... More on Lasik Surgery Miami

Glaucoma and You ndash;Which Surgery is Best

Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness in the United States. Your eye has pressure just as your blood does and if it increases to a dangerous level it may damage the optic nerve. This increased pressure can mean less ability to see objects from the edge of your eye, and could eventually cause blindness. Glaucoma affects nearly three million Americans. There are two major types of gl..... More on Lasik Surgery Miami

Laser Peripheral Iridotomy ndash;Alternative Surgery for Acute Angle Closure Glaucom

Laser peripheral Iridotomy or PI is performed on patients who have acute angle closure glaucoma. It will also correct patients with the problem of narrow angle vision. A patient has "narrow angles" when the aqueous fluid is not allowing the fluid to drain because of a bowed iris. The fluid normally escapes the eye by flowing between the lens and the iris. The trabecular meshwork found where th..... More on Lasik Surgery Miami

Epi LASIK ndash;What Is It and How Does It Work

Epi–LASIK surgery is a cross between LASIK and LASEK eye surgeries. It was designed to remove some of the complications associated with laser beam surgery. LASIK involved making a flap in the cornea with a sharp blade or laser beam. Problems arose if the incision to made the flap too thick. LASEK surgery involves making an incision on the cornea’s outer layer and leaving it attached to the eye..... More on Lasik Surgery Miami

What Is Wavefront LASIK Surgery

Wavefront LASIK surgery is also known as custom LASIK surgery uses 3–dimensional measurements of precisely how your eye processes images. It then uses those measurements to find out how best to use the laser in reshaping the cornea. This new customized surgery will correct vision problems that may not be correctable with regular LASIK surgery. Individualized vision corrections are done precisel..... More on Lasik Surgery Miami

Eye Surgery With A Humanitarian Purpos

Eye surgeries are performed all over the world to correct vision and for cosmetic purposes. One reconstructive eye surgery was performed at no charge to a young Russian girl who received shrapnel injury in the September 2004 terrorist take over in Beslan, Russia. Over 300 people were killed in this hostage situation and many more were seriously injured. One of those injured was a ten–year–old g..... More on Lasik Surgery Miami

Are You A Candidate for Implantable Contact Lens

Formerly, the only American eye patients who were eligible to receive implantable contact lenses were those who had developed cataracts that were removed because of clouded vision. Some surgeons are now using this same procedure to implant contact lenses into the eyes of patients who have an extreme nearsighted condition who will not benefit from LASIK surgery. Surgeons are being trained to us..... More on Lasik Surgery Miami

You Can Have A Natural Looking Prosthetic Eye

The search for a more natural prosthetic eye continues but there has been an important breakthrough in this field. The purpose of an anophthalmic socket implant is to mimic the movement of the natural eye and give it the look of normalcy. The best implant would be able to have enough orbital volume to make up for the empty socket, minimal chance for infection and small protrusion or recession in..... More on Lasik Surgery Miami