If you are reading this blog post you may either be someone who has a lazy eye or be the parent of someone with a lazy eye. Either way you are likely to be interested to know whether a lazy eye is treatable by laser eye surgery.
If you have a lazy eye then you will most likely have been patched as a child - the reason for the patching is to try and strengthen your lazy eye by covering over your good eye in an attempt to make the bad eye stronger. There are many companies out there who offer advice on eye patches such as anissasfunpatches and so with there help, hopefully lazy eyes will be a thing of the past.
Depending on how successful your treatment was as a child will very much determine if you are suitable for laser eye surgery.
The general rule is that laser eye surgery can give you same vision as you currently have with glasses or contact lenses. So if you can see half way down the chart with your glasses or contact lenses then following the surgery you will still be able to see half way down the chart only that you wont have to wear the glasses or contact lenses.
If you decide to have laser eye surgery on your good eye then your surgeon will only consider you suitable if your bad eye is not profoundly lazy. The reason for this is that if they operate on your good eye and something goes wrong and you are left to rely on your bad eye it has to have a certain standard of vision. This is why eye patching at a young age is so important so it at least means you have some vision (even if not as good as your good eye) in that eye in case you ever had to rely on it.
Hope this post has been helpful. You can read more about lazy eyes at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amblyopia if you still have some questions unanswered.
Sunday, 11 April 2010
Thursday, 25 March 2010
Lasik eye surgery
Hi again,
Today I am going to talk about lasik eye surgery and see if i can simplify it a bit, so it is easy to understand. If you are going to have laser eye surgery then the chances are you will have to choose between either lasik or lasek. Lasik is by far the most common procedure as the recovery time is a lot quicker and for most people there is very little discomfort experienced at all.
The part of your eye that needs to be lasered is the inner layers of your cornea. Your cornea sits over the coloured part of your eye (iris) and is the outer most point of your eye. During lasik, the surgeon has to create a flap, which is basically an incredibly thin layer of your cornea (less than a mm thick) so he/she can access the inner cornea. Once this flap is created and moved to the side the surgeon can apply the laser. The laser is simply re-shaping your cornea to change the power of it, so that it eliminates the prescription in your glasses/contact lenses. You can think of it as lasering the power of your glasses on to your eye if that makes more sense.
Once the laser is complete - normally less than 1 minute - the surgeon replaces the thin layer of cornea (flap) back to where is was originally and your eye heals naturally. The flap is created either using a surgical blade (standard lasik) or using a laser ( intralase lasik).
I will discuss Intralase in a later post - hope this has helped explain lasik,
Thanks for reading
Today I am going to talk about lasik eye surgery and see if i can simplify it a bit, so it is easy to understand. If you are going to have laser eye surgery then the chances are you will have to choose between either lasik or lasek. Lasik is by far the most common procedure as the recovery time is a lot quicker and for most people there is very little discomfort experienced at all.
The part of your eye that needs to be lasered is the inner layers of your cornea. Your cornea sits over the coloured part of your eye (iris) and is the outer most point of your eye. During lasik, the surgeon has to create a flap, which is basically an incredibly thin layer of your cornea (less than a mm thick) so he/she can access the inner cornea. Once this flap is created and moved to the side the surgeon can apply the laser. The laser is simply re-shaping your cornea to change the power of it, so that it eliminates the prescription in your glasses/contact lenses. You can think of it as lasering the power of your glasses on to your eye if that makes more sense.
Once the laser is complete - normally less than 1 minute - the surgeon replaces the thin layer of cornea (flap) back to where is was originally and your eye heals naturally. The flap is created either using a surgical blade (standard lasik) or using a laser ( intralase lasik).
I will discuss Intralase in a later post - hope this has helped explain lasik,
Thanks for reading
Friday, 5 March 2010
Laser eye surgery - made simple
Hi everyone,
I have been working in the field of laser eye surgery for the past 5 years and its something i have got a great passion for. The thing I often find when talking to people about laser eye surgery is how confused they are about the whole thing! I am convinced the reason for this, is the fact that is it often so poorly explained. Opticians and ophthalmologists seem to enjoy using long and complicated words to explain things, which only acts to confuse people! I aim to change all this in my blog by writing about laser eye surgery in a really easy to understand way.
Having looked on the Internet for websites that explain things in a simplistic way I found treatmentsaver.com which gives lots of information on laser eye surgery but doesn't go too far and confuse you!
Over the next few months I will be blogging about the different types of laser eye treatments that are available, so that you will be be able to understand them all a bit better. That way if you decide to have laser eye surgery at least you will understand exactly what it is you are having!
Bye for now
T H
I have been working in the field of laser eye surgery for the past 5 years and its something i have got a great passion for. The thing I often find when talking to people about laser eye surgery is how confused they are about the whole thing! I am convinced the reason for this, is the fact that is it often so poorly explained. Opticians and ophthalmologists seem to enjoy using long and complicated words to explain things, which only acts to confuse people! I aim to change all this in my blog by writing about laser eye surgery in a really easy to understand way.
Having looked on the Internet for websites that explain things in a simplistic way I found treatmentsaver.com which gives lots of information on laser eye surgery but doesn't go too far and confuse you!
Over the next few months I will be blogging about the different types of laser eye treatments that are available, so that you will be be able to understand them all a bit better. That way if you decide to have laser eye surgery at least you will understand exactly what it is you are having!
Bye for now
T H
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