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 […]

Eye muscle surgery, officially called strabismus surgery, is used to correct misaligned eyes and is done by the use of surgical techniques on the extra ocular muscles.
 
There are seven muscles in total within the eye these are the
 

Levator palpebrae superioris
Superior rectus
Inferior rectus
Lateral rectus
Medial rectus
Superior oblique
Inferior oblique

 
Definition of misaligned eyes
 
When we look at an object our […]

No, I don’t mean when your eyes look at every person of the opposite sex who comes into your line of sight!  Sometimes a person may have an eye that doesn’t follow the other eye.  This means vision is out of alignment and corrections need to be made to the extraocular muscles.  These muscles are […]

The popularity of LASIK surgery to correct vision problems increases in popularity.  More patients are choosing this method of surgery for correcting their vision problems every year.  As with any other surgery, there are risks and complications involved.  Factual clinical information needs to be looked at to decide if the benefits of LASIK surgery outweigh […]

If someone has a refractive error in the eye this means they have an abnormal shaped eye or cornea, or they have a hardened lens. By having one of these conditions, it means they suffer with visual impairment because the lights rays do not reached the retina at the correct state that a normal healthy […]

There are other surgeries on the eye that are not specifically to improve your vision.  There are conditions and complications of the eye that do need laser or incision surgery.  One of the most common forms of eye surgery is to remove cataracts.  A cataract is a cloudiness of the eye’s lens and is normally […]

There are many different corrective eye surgeries and research should be done before making this important decision.  Those who have been wearing corrective lenses for many years may find their choices are many and information is needed to fid the surgery that is best for them.
 
Conductive Keratoplasty (CK) is a form of surgery that uses […]

Laser assisted sub-epithelial keratectomy is a form of laser eye surgery that many people are turning to more and more, removing the need to wear glasses or contact lenses. Lasek is a relatively new surgery and is almost a variation of PRK laser surgery.
 
The treatment involves using an excimer laser (ultraviolet chemical laser) to burn […]

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 […]

Wouldn’t you love to throw those glasses away and never have to wear them again? Well you can, the advances in eye surgery have given many people the sight needed to ditch those glasses and enter the world of those with two eyes.
 
What is laser eye surgery?
 
Laser eye surgery is a new advance in surgical […]