Asking about safe laser eye surgery should not occur after a person is in the surgeon's chair and the laserbeam is pointing directly into your eyes. Ignoring all the questions about laser eye surgery until the last second can be just as damaging as the groom waiting for his bride to come down the aisle and trying to remember her name. Most people have looked at the statistics on airline safety, so why not know how safe one's eyes are in the hands of a doctor who is going to cut away the eyes tissue? The reality is that the term safe laser surgery may be a misnomer, and that more to the point ought to be the phrase safer ocular laser surgery. When pilots say that flying is safe, they are saying it is relatively safe, but flying is not safe in the sense that nothing ever happens. And safe laser eye surgery is usually the outcome of most procedures of its kind, but it is not always safe from risks.
Most people elect to have this kind of procedure done because they hate glasses and don't want to have to mess with the hassle of contact lenses. There are some who may desire a particular vocation or occupation that requires normal vision that is uncorrected by contacts or eye glasses. So the last resort is to allow a doctor to cut tissue out of one's eyes to reshape the light coming in. Yes, it is a crude way to describe what LASIK surgery is, but that's what a laserbeam does: it burns and cuts. While the surgeon does some general cutting of the eyes with a knife, in some high tech offices the very exacting cutting of the eyes is not in the hands of the surgeon, but rather in the very precise and mechanical care of a computer controlled laser which certainly lowers the opportunities for human error in safe laser eye surgery.
In the end, long term complication risks for a sight correction operation of the eyes are very low. In fact, it is less than half a percent or one in every two hundred procedures. But they can be very serious including blurred vision, over or under correction, inability to drive at night because of night blindness and loss of eyesight, or the vision is worse than before the procedure. Second surgeries can often correct the problems from the first, so perhaps there really is almost one hundred percent safe laser eye surgery, especially after the second time around. Jesus understood the importance of the health of eyes, which is not surprising because He makes the human ocular system, but he likened the health of the eyes to the health of the soul. In other words, just as all of us are affected by the condition are eyes are in, so spiritually God looks at the condition of our heart and judges us accordingly. "The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light, but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness." (Luke 11:34)
There are two types of laserbeam surgery, LASIK and PRK. In the LASIK procedure, a flap in the cornea is cut by the surgeon. The flap is lifted, and the laser cuts enough of the cornea to reshape it for correction. In PRK, the entire procedure is performed by the laserbeam and instead of a flap being lifted, the laserbeam cuts through the surface cells and reshapes the cornea. PRK sculpts the cornea and LASIK cuts it. PRK is considered to be the most safe laser eye surgery of the two types, yet both of them are essentially routine. Recovery for PRK takes longer, and for many patients, both LASIK and PRK, full corrected sight may not be recognized or experienced for six months.
The good news is that tens of thousands of safe laser eye surgery procedures take place in the United States every year. There are many very qualified and highly skilled ophthalmologists that have done this surgery day after day for several years. But not all those desiring this procedure are good candidates. Those under the age of eighteen, those who have had changes to contact prescriptions in the past year, no woman who is nursing or pregnant, and those with dry eyes syndrome are not considered good candidates for safe laser eye surgery. These exceptions have proven to cause a higher incident of risk complications and so are dismissed by ethical surgeons as poor candidates. And of course it goes without saying that those persons who do not sign a consent form will not be allowed to have the procedure undertaken on their behalf.
Laser eye surgery can be found at varying prices among many competing ophthalmologists who are anxious for your business. Many times there are ads for surgeries on each eye at beginning at four or five hundred dollars. However, the average regular cost is about eleven hundred to seventeen hundred dollars per eye, so the real question is why are those doctors advertising such very low prices? Safe laser eye surgery is possible because doctors must keep all equipment in top notch working order and must, in many cases, pay a royalty to the manufacturer of the laser equipment for every procedure performed. The question is, can all this overhead be maintained with cut rate prices?
Most people elect to have this kind of procedure done because they hate glasses and don't want to have to mess with the hassle of contact lenses. There are some who may desire a particular vocation or occupation that requires normal vision that is uncorrected by contacts or eye glasses. So the last resort is to allow a doctor to cut tissue out of one's eyes to reshape the light coming in. Yes, it is a crude way to describe what LASIK surgery is, but that's what a laserbeam does: it burns and cuts. While the surgeon does some general cutting of the eyes with a knife, in some high tech offices the very exacting cutting of the eyes is not in the hands of the surgeon, but rather in the very precise and mechanical care of a computer controlled laser which certainly lowers the opportunities for human error in safe laser eye surgery.
In the end, long term complication risks for a sight correction operation of the eyes are very low. In fact, it is less than half a percent or one in every two hundred procedures. But they can be very serious including blurred vision, over or under correction, inability to drive at night because of night blindness and loss of eyesight, or the vision is worse than before the procedure. Second surgeries can often correct the problems from the first, so perhaps there really is almost one hundred percent safe laser eye surgery, especially after the second time around. Jesus understood the importance of the health of eyes, which is not surprising because He makes the human ocular system, but he likened the health of the eyes to the health of the soul. In other words, just as all of us are affected by the condition are eyes are in, so spiritually God looks at the condition of our heart and judges us accordingly. "The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light, but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness." (Luke 11:34)
There are two types of laserbeam surgery, LASIK and PRK. In the LASIK procedure, a flap in the cornea is cut by the surgeon. The flap is lifted, and the laser cuts enough of the cornea to reshape it for correction. In PRK, the entire procedure is performed by the laserbeam and instead of a flap being lifted, the laserbeam cuts through the surface cells and reshapes the cornea. PRK sculpts the cornea and LASIK cuts it. PRK is considered to be the most safe laser eye surgery of the two types, yet both of them are essentially routine. Recovery for PRK takes longer, and for many patients, both LASIK and PRK, full corrected sight may not be recognized or experienced for six months.
The good news is that tens of thousands of safe laser eye surgery procedures take place in the United States every year. There are many very qualified and highly skilled ophthalmologists that have done this surgery day after day for several years. But not all those desiring this procedure are good candidates. Those under the age of eighteen, those who have had changes to contact prescriptions in the past year, no woman who is nursing or pregnant, and those with dry eyes syndrome are not considered good candidates for safe laser eye surgery. These exceptions have proven to cause a higher incident of risk complications and so are dismissed by ethical surgeons as poor candidates. And of course it goes without saying that those persons who do not sign a consent form will not be allowed to have the procedure undertaken on their behalf.
Laser eye surgery can be found at varying prices among many competing ophthalmologists who are anxious for your business. Many times there are ads for surgeries on each eye at beginning at four or five hundred dollars. However, the average regular cost is about eleven hundred to seventeen hundred dollars per eye, so the real question is why are those doctors advertising such very low prices? Safe laser eye surgery is possible because doctors must keep all equipment in top notch working order and must, in many cases, pay a royalty to the manufacturer of the laser equipment for every procedure performed. The question is, can all this overhead be maintained with cut rate prices?
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