PKR Laser Eye Surgery

PKR Laser Eye Surgery: Getting Back Your Perfect Vision

After long hours of working in front of your computer for years, it's no wonder that your eyes are strain and you develop poor vision. Fortunately, you do not have to wear those unflattering eyeglasses to correct your vision. With PRK laser eye surgery, you can correct your failing eyesight. What is makes PKR laser eye surgery more interesting is that, you do not even have to stay in the hospital for days to recuperate after the procedure. PKR laser eye surgery is an outpatient procedure so after the surgery, you can go home and rest.

What Is PKR Laser Eye Surgery?

PKR laser eye surgery is a type of refraction surgery that involves the reshaping of the cornea. This procedure uses precise laser eye protection technology to gently reshape the cornea by removing some microscopic amount of tissue from the outer surface of the eye with the use of laser beams. Each laser pulse is capable or removing 39 millionths of an inch of tissue in the eye in about 12 billionths of a second. Now, that may be quite hand to imagine so let me put it like this, the laser beam is very precise that it can cut several notches in a single strand of thin hair without breaking it. That is how precise the laser pulse is.

Since PKR laser eye surgery is very precise, you need not worry about your doctor making a lot of mistakes. Besides, since this technology was approved by the FDA for public use in 1995, there were not many reported cases of accidents happening during PKR laser eye surgery. Besides, most if not all doctors who perform PKR laser surgeries are extra careful when it comes to treating their patients. Before a patient is scheduled for surgery, he or she undergoes a series of consultation where his or her vision is mapped out in the computer. The information gathered during these sessions are then feed into a computer and used as basis for calculating the amount and the precise location of tissues which need to be removed during the PKR laser eye surgery.

Most patients who undergo this type of treatment recover fast. In fact, many patients are able to go back to work after 3 to 4 days from the surgery. The results of PKR laser eye surgery are also very encouraging. Studies show that only about five percent of those people who underwent this procedure still need to wear eyeglasses after the surgery.