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BEFORE THE TREATMENT |
Your doctor will examine your eyes before the operation.
Your myopia, hypermetropia and astigmatism degrees will be determined.
Before this treatment, rigid and gas permeable contact lenses must be removed and
not wear on for 2 weeks and soft contact lenses for 3-5 days.
This treatment is inconvenient for some eye and systemic diseases such as rheumatismal
diseases and diabetes. Your doctor will inform you on this issues before the treatment.
However, if you have a special disease or a special medicine you have to use, inform
your doctor as usual.
The LASIK treatment will take 8-9 minutes for both eyes.
After the LASIK treatment, you will obtain the best sight you achieve using glasses
or contact lenses. The laser treatment will replace the glasses or contact lenses.
The laser treatment cures the refraction defects of the eyes (myopia, astigmatism
and hypermetropia). It is not a treatment method for eye diseases.
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AFTER THE TREATMENT |
There is no need to patch the eyes after the treatment.
Some eye drops have to be used for a few days.
It is suggested that the treated eyes are not touched and no bath is taken during
the first 24 hours.
After 24 hours, you can return to your daily life.
It is normal to feel some stinging and deliquescence effects for the first few hours.
It is useful to attend the regular checks. However, patients do ommit the controls
as the results are good.
The new eye degree achieved will change very scarcely or will not change at all
after the 3rd month.
The most significant complication in LASIK treatment is not to achieve the desired
adjustment. This situation can be adjusted after
6 months - 1 year by applying LASIK
treatment again. There is no inconvenience in repeating the treatment this way.
Wearing near glasses is a physiological and natural situation in persons older than
40-45 years. Therefore, after a well performed LASIK treatment the people older
than 40 naturally continue to use near glasses only for reading or start using
near glasses in some special situations. Ask your doctor for information on this
issue if you are 40 or older.
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THE FIRST STEP:
After preparing the patient by avoiding him/her to blink
with a special device, the device called microkeratom is placed in the starting
point on the surface of the eye.
The automatic movement of this device is designed to lift a thin layer of 160 microns
( flap) from the surface of the eye.
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THE SECOND STEP:
The flap is delicately lifted using a special device after
being prepared as a hinged item with an uncut part at its edge.
The surface beneath is examined and prepared for the laser by being cleaned and
dried.
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THE THIRD STEP:
The flap is delicately lifted
using a special device after being prepared as a hinged item with an uncut part
at its edge.
The surface beneath is examined and prepared for the laser by being cleaned and
dried.
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THE FOURTH STEP:
The laser has been previously set according to the diopters of the patient. After the flap is lifted and the surface is dried, the laser
is operated. The patient has
to look at the small red light. It does not matter
if the patient makes small moves with his eyes during the laser strokes
because
the laser is designed to capture these moves (eye tracking system). Laser works for a while with its own
computer system to correct the diopters and the operation ends. As every probability
is previously considered, the surgeon can control the laser strokes with a foot
pedal when necessary.
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THE FIFTH STEP:
When the laser operation is finished, the eye surface gets
a new form where the diopter is eliminated.
This new surface form, which in normal conditions can not be seen even through a
microscope, is as shown above for the myopia.
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THE SIXTH STEP:
The new form achieved in hypermetropia is as shown in the
model aside.
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THE SEVENTH STEP:
After the end of the operation, the flap is delicately
put back in its natural position and gets stuck on its former position in a couple
of minutes.
There is no need for stiches or a sticking material. From now on, no myopia, hypermetropia
or astigmatism degrees will be measured on further examinations.
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