Dr. Tueng T. Shen and her team at the University of Washington offer the latest in corrective eye surgery. The safer new ‘LASEK’ procedure can be done without cutting a flap in the cornea, as the older and more familiar LASIK surgery requires.
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This is the Science Friday (National Public Radio) video about LASIK eye surgery. The funny thing about this video is that the narrator, who is probably also the producer, is a lot more nervous about LASIK laser vision correction than the patient himself. He is cool as a cucumber, I had LASIK myself, didn’t think [...]
I had PRK eye surgery done last year. It’s very similar to LASIK, but instead of cutting a flap in the epithelium, they scrape a portion of it away, allowing it to regrow like normal without having “flap problems” in the future. This is a video of one of the eyes. Oh, and [...]
This condensed video shows a PRK Lasik eye surgery using a radial knife to cut the “flap”. Because the patient had previously had RK surgery, the flap had to be completely removed (due to scarring) rather than laid back into place as in typical PRK. The full procedure is generally painless and took only 9 [...]
bladeless lasik eye surgery
performed by Dr. Swati Singh at Laservue eye center in San Francisco
compare the video of this new intralase tecnology for flap creation to the other videos on this site. this way is much safer and (only) about 0 more per eye.
-Flap is made with new intralase technology. microscopic bubbles created at a [...]
