Washington DC Maryland LASIK Evaluation
They’re actually several different surgical strategies that are available to try to help patients get rid of their glasses. There’s Lasik, there’s PRK, there are implantable contact lenses. Our goal as a refractive surgeon is to match the appropriate procedure to the patient. So the way we do that is by doing a very thorough preoperative operation, and when we’re evaluating patients we’re looking at the contour of their cornea, how thick it is, as well as a lot of other physical examination findings. And we’re correlating that also with their lifestyle.
A 26 year old is obviously different in terms of their visual needs than somebody that’s 50. Somebody that’s an accountant is different than somebody that sky dives, and these are all things that we take into consideration when we are making the recommendation as far as what’s the best procedure for each patient.