This is a follow up to my PRK surgery video. I try to answer most questions that have been asked of me since the procedure. I discuss the results, the surgery itself, recovery, and Lasic vs PRK.
See procedure video on my channel at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEYGoVcQvCw
I am not a doctor, just a patient giving you me experience in an honest and unbiast way. Hope you find the info useful.
Duration : 0:10:39
what vision problems can be corrected using laser eye surgery???what are the risks/ benefits of these surgical procedures. what do the letters LASIK stand for? how about PRK?
1) the laser is an excimer laser 2) nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism 3) would take more time than I want to take 4) Laser Insitu Keratomileusis 5) Photorefractive keratectomy.
As I understand it, LASIK involves cutting a flap out of your corneal layer (which can fold out again – *scary*!). However, PRK doesn’t involve any cutting, but "re-shapes" the eye with lasers.
So are there any advantages to LASIK over PRK which makes the former so much more well-known and popular? Why doesn’t everyone get PRK instead of LASIK?
PRK is not "better" than LASIK. they are just different.
LASIK has a significantly faster healing time, which is why it is more popular. most people can return to work/school seeing well & not in pain 2 days after LASIK. not so with PRK, which takes weeks to heal & is more uncomfortable. as you pointed out, PRK has no "flap", but it is much more likely to have corneal "haze" that needs to be treated.
each of them have their merits & disadvantages (there are more than i just listed). you should discuss your options with your doc. but its kind of silly IMO to announce that PRK is "better" than LASIK. i do not consider that to be true at all. theyre different.
both PRK & LASIK are significantly better than RK, which you likely not talk any US doc into performing on you in 2010
im doing an assignment on laser eye surgery and i need to know how long the procedure takes and how much does it cost, the types of surgeries im doing are
PRK
LASIK
LASEK
Epi-Lasik
so thanks in advance 
You can easily check your minimal health care rates in internet, for example here – health-quotes.talk4fun.net
I have read that the USAF offers PRK eye surgery to airmen and was puzzled why the RAF/RN has not considered it yet. Does anyone know if they will allow it in the near future (next 3 years)?
Thanks
because the RAF and RN have seen what USAF do which is kill there own men and other NATO countries and they dont want friendly fire
Ultralase is the leading provider of LASIK & Wavefront treatment in United Kingdom. At the first time established in UK (January 1991), it was a sister clinic to the Toronto Facility (Canada) and opened at Clatterbridge Hospital, Wirral. This clinic having specialization in PRK (Photo-Refractive Ceratectomy; first type of laser eye surgery).
LASIK (LASer In-situ Keratomileusis) technique was first introduced at Ultralase in 1995. Beside that Ultralase also extending its treatment to thousands of patients suffering from long-sightedness, astigmatism and more extreme short-sightedness.
Untill 2002, Ultralase had opened many clinics around the country which was in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Chelmsford, Guildford, Leeds City Centre, London (Hammersmith and Tottenham Court Road), Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne and St Albans. An additional two clinics was built at Reading, in 2005 & Glasgow by the end of 2006.
Ultralase had gained many recognition and achievement which was:
• Achieving rankings in the Inner City 100 Index and the Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100 listings.
• Plain English Campaign’s coveted Crystal Mark in 2004 Mark for the clarity of its brochure.
• November 2003, the first groups in the UK to install the Bausch & Lomb Zyoptix Z100 laser system throughout its clinics, offering Wavefront-guided treatment, iris recognition and multi-dimensional eye-tracking capability.
• May 2005, Ultralase performed its 100,000th laser eye surgery, and with capacity for more than 2500 LASIK eye surgeries to be performed each month.
• June 2005, Ultralase’s first intra-ocular eye surgery.
• Per August 2005, Ultralase has launched two new brands – Ultralase Vision Correction (continuing to specialize in laser eye treatment and other forms of vision correction) and Ultralase Medical Aesthetics (introducing cosmetic and aesthetic treatments) into the UK. The first Medical Aesthetics clinic is now open in Hammersmith, London. This makes Ultralase remain at the forefront of laser eye surgery in the UK due to their continuing investment in laser technology.
• June 2006, Ultralase introduces Intralase technology across the UK.
• September 2006, Ultra-CK (conductive keratoplasty), the non-laser treatment for presbyopia; a gradual loss of close-up focusing ability caused by natural ageing process, is launched in clinics.
Yudi Hariyanto
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/laser-eye-surgery-in-uk-ultralase-an-overview-121365.html
Is it bad and harmful to do them for my eyes?Because there are many jumps and movement in both of them.
NO YOU CAN DO ANYTHING YOU WANT GO FOR IT AND HAVE FUN:-)
is it worth spending more money on wavefront laser eye sugery than the reg options out there?
Regardless of whether the surgeon does LASIK or surface ablation, there is an additional choice in “how” the laser will be applied to the cornea. Conventional ablations make use of data obtained during manifest and cycloplegic refractions. This data, that is generated by humans (surgeon, technician etc) based on their examination of your eye, is what tells the laser how much to treat and how to treat. The ablation profile will contain a spherical component and an astigmatic component. Conventional ablations essentially treat what glasses have been treating for hundreds of years. Wavefront-guided treatments allow optical properties beyond spherical and cylindrical defocus to be corrected. Wavefront aberrometers (automated machines) capture data that describe the optical aberrations of a patient’s eye. This data, that is generated by an automated machine (wavefront aberrometer) based on an average of 3 automated recordings, is what tells the laser how much to treat and how to treat.
Whether the additional information obtained with wavefront-guided treatments is translated into better ablations and improved acuity compared with conventional LASIK can be determined by comparing the FDA trials data. In wavefront-guided LASIK, 89% of patients achieved uncorrected visual acuities of 20/20 or better . By contrast, with conventional treatment, patients reached 20/20 or better only 72% of the time. Therefore more people can expect to achieve uncorrected vision of 20/20 with wavefront-guided LASIK. The likely reason for this difference is that wavefront-guided treatments treat higher order aberrations as well (conventional treatments do not treat higher order aberrations).
This past Tuesday I had PRK laser eye surgery to correct my vision. They informed me that I should avoid television and the computer for 24 hours after the surgery but didn’t say anything about the days after that. I’ve been watching television and going on the computer for more and more time over the past 3 days. My eyes are no longer light sensitive and I can see fairly well – the only thing that is bothering me is the contacts that I have in my eyes to protect them (I’m getting them removed tomorrow ). My dad insisted I should start watching television more since it will strengthen my eyes and I’m wondering if he’s right?
Thanks for any responses!
No your dad is wrong! Watching tv or using a computer does NOT strengthen your eyes. The doctors don’t want you staring at and possibly straining your eyes to watch something. After surgery I didn’t watch tv or use a computer for about 2 or 3 days to make sure my eyes healed well. Dont use the computer or watch tv for more than an hour without taking a break. Like get up and do something else after an hour. If concerned call your eye doctor’s office for more information.
i had prk laser surgery last friday.