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LASIK
Eye Surgery Information to help the
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As you embark upon the LASIK Eye Surgery experience, you should become familiar with certain aspects of the entire LASIK process. Your understanding of the steps that make up a thorough evaluation and consultation, what to expect on LASIK surgery day and the immediate, short term as well as longer term period after your LASIK treatment will help provide the best overall LASIK experience.
While each practice you visit will offer a slightly different experience for your initial evaluation, they should all provide you with a look at a competent staff, an opportunity to have your questions answered and the time necessary to explore your personal motivation and objectives for having LASIK. Patient education is the foundation upon which on consistent high quality LASIK outcomes and outstanding visual results are built.
Initial Patient Education
The first step in your LASIK experience should commence with some
type of initial patient education visit. This may take the form of
attending a LASIK seminar to get to know more about the procedures,
what is involved in LASIK and can provide an introductory
opportunity to meet the staff and the LASIK surgeon. Some practices
prefer that you actually visit the office for a free screening
or free evaluation in order to get to know more about you and
your personal goals for having Laser Eye Surgery. At a free
screening or evaluation, some preliminary testing might be performed
in order to give you some additional information about whether you
might or might not be a good LASIK candidate, or if you might be a
better candidate for some other type of Laser Eye Surgery to address
your needs and goals. You should expect that whether you simply attend a
patient education seminar or a free screening evaluation, a
Refractive Surgery Coordinator or Counselor will spend considerable
time answering questions and providing you with the information that
you need to help you make a good decision about LASIK and their
particular practice. You should know that the Refractive Surgery
Coordinator or Counselor is a highly trained member of the LASIK
surgeon's staff and works closely with the surgeon on a daily basis.
They can give you a preview of the LASIK surgeon's personality and
clinical style, which are important characteristics that you want to
consider. Besides being able to project their professional
competence, the LASIK surgeon should have a communication style and
demeanor that is comforting, empathetic and reassuring to you and
the Refractive Surgery Coordinator can be a valuable source of
information regarding what to expect in this area.
Before Your Evaluation and Consultation
Only after a thorough comprehensive examination and consultation
will final recommendations about your options be possible. This
requires a great deal of clinical examination time during which many
questions will be asked, many measurements taken, much data
collected and a dialogue will occur between the surgeon and staff.
You need to carefully follow the instructions of the Refractive
Surgery Coordinator who will tell you how long to remove your
contacts prior to your visit, how long you can expect to be in the
office on the day of your consultation, what tests will be done,
what drops will be placed in your eyes and what your next steps will
be. The complete consultation may seem like a very long visit--and
in fact, it may take 1.5-2 hours in order to carefully take all of
the measurements necessary. You should expect this kind of
thoroughness to get you the best results.
Next
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Before Your Evaluation and Consultation ;
At Your Consultation ;
Your LASIK Decision Process
Arranging Your LASIK Surgery Day ;
The Actual Surgery Day ;
After You Leave Your LASIK Surgery Day ;
Post Operative Care
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