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Lasik surgery in Turkey is a surgical procedure of the eye, which aims to repair the refractive anomalies of cornea, whether it be hyperopia, astigmatism or myopia.
Lasik surgery can also be used to correct ametropia with of surgical instruments.
Lasik surgery does not necessarily cause postoperative pain. operating procedures.
In what cases can Lasik surgery be performed?
A preoperative assessment accompanied by a medical interview must be performed by the ophthalmic surgeon to determine the eligibility of a patient for lasik surgery in Turkey.
The preoperative workup allows the surgeon to have a knowledge of of the patient's eye and to determine if the eye has indicators that may favour the occurrence of certain effects secondary or not.
The medical interview is necessary to allow the surgeon to specialized in the intervention to detect possible contraindications to this surgery. It can be pathologies such as ophthalmologic or other medical history.
This interview also allows the surgeon to identify the expectations of the patient.
What are the contraindications to Lasik surgery?
Contraindications that do not allow Lasik surgery are :
A chronic eye
disease:
people with chronic progressive corneal diseases such as that a keratoconus should not undertake Lasik surgery.
Certain diseases such as glaucoma with visual field impairment are also among the contraindications for lasik surgery.
Systemic diseases such as autoimmune diseases, diabetes, and collagenosis or scarring defects are also part of it.
- Rapid changes in refractive values:In the case of changing of refractive index between two relatively close controls, of a Femto-LASIK treatment should not be performed.
- The thickness of the cornea:a cornea that is too thin. is also an absolute contraindication to lasik surgery because the condition for this operation is to have a cornea thick enough.
It should also be
noted that patients
must be at least 18
years old
to undertake Lasik
surgery in Turkey.
Finally, we must add chronic eye diseases to the others contraindications of Lasik surgery.
What are the advantages of Lasik surgery in Turkey?
Lasik surgery in
Turkey has several
advantages;
it allows by the
installation of the
corneal cap, to
to bypass the
obstacles of
photokeratectomy
(PKR).
Some of the main
benefits are:
- An annihilation of the infectious risk compared to old methods.
- A much more precise and regular cutting of the cover corneal.
- A good preservation of the innervation of the cornea which avoids any possible delay in recovery visual postoperative.
- Better preservation of the corneal epithelium.
What are the disadvantages of LASIK eye surgery?
The side effects depend on the visual defect. The more the latter is important, the higher the incidence of side effects is likely.
In general, lasik surgery is used for patients who have myopia, presbyopia or hyperopia and astigmatism.
When the recommendations of the ophthalmic surgeon are The disadvantages are minimal.