MN Eye Hospitals...

Refractive Surgery Services

A glasses free eye is a dream of every glass wearing individual. Our hospital has fulfilled this dream for hundreds of individual in past few years under the experience heads of Dr. Chalini Madhivanan this wing has become a state of art center for LASIK and other refractive surgeries.

Different procedures available are Myopic, Hyperopic and Astigmatism LASIK and LASEK for thin cornea, Conductive Keratoplasty for presbiopic patients. Facility for phakic IOL or Intra ocular contact lens(ICL) for very high Myopia is also available.

Our centre is equipped with Nidek EC5000 with navex platform for customizing each case of laser and is state of the art equipment.

Introduction

We are having the state of the art technology for Refractory correction by LASIK laser correction. High powers and astigmatism can be corrected. Implantable Contact lens for eyes not fit for laser correction can also be done.

Description

Normal rays of light entering the eyes are brought to precise focus on retina-the light sensitive layer lining the back of the eye. When such a focus is not achieved, a refractive error results and vision is not clear. When light rays are focused in FRONT of the retina, the resulting condition is termed MYOPIA (Short-sightedness). In HYPEROPIA (Long-sightedness) the light rays come to focus BEHIND the retina. ASTIGMATISM (Cylindrical error) occurs when incoming light rays unable to reach a common focus within the eye.

Investigation

Corneal topography

Corneal topography is a non invasive imaging technique for mapping the surface of the cornea. It extends the measurement range from the four points a few millimeters apart that is offered by keratometry to a grid of thousands points covering the entire cornea in seconds and is completely painless.

Procedure

LASIK is a surgical procedure intended to reduce a person's dependency on glasses or contact lenses.

The Nidek EC-5000 Excimer Laser System is approved for topography-assisted LASIK treatment using the Final Fit™ custom ablation treatment planning software, for the reduction or elimination of Refractive errors.

When LASIK should not be done?

Will my vision improve immediately?

You should be able to see reasonably well immediately the very next day after your procedure. If you have had a ASA, your eye will be patched for 24 hrs following which your vision will become clear . In either procedure the clarity of vision will improve as the healing takes place.

What are the possible side effects of the procedure?

Early effects MAY include Light sensitivity or glare.

When can I resume my normal activities?

If you had ASA, you can return in 4-5 days time and if you had LASIK done you can return to work from the next day. The eye medication should be applied as per schedule and there should be no trauma or water falling inside the eye for a week.

How often I should come for check up?

You will have to come on the 1st Post operative day and then after a week later and then after 1 month . After that you will have to visit once a year to examine your retina.