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Are You Candidate For Lasik?

If answer "yes" to one or more of the following questions, then LASIK may be the solution that you have been looking for.
  • Do your glasses or contact lenses interfere with your hobbies, sports activities, or your job?
  • Do you want to see the clock when you wake-up?
  • Do you want to enjoy swimming and the beach with total visual freedom?
  • Do your friends complain of not being noticed by you at the beach?
  • Do you want to get rid of problems related to your glasses such as the dent on your nose, fogging on cold days, getting wet on rainy days?
  • Do your eyes feel dry and tired with contact lenses?
  • Do you feel an urge to remove your contact lenses after a few hours of wear?
  • Are you tired of contact lens care?
  • Are you worried about the infection risks of contacts?
  • In case of emergencies such as fire, earthquake and break-ins will you be in need of searching for your glasses or contact lenses?
  • Do you want to feel independent, self-sufficient and free?
  • Do you want to stop paying again and again for glasses or contact lenses?
Who May Be Qualified For Lasik?
Indications:
Age  of  the  patients  …  above  18 years  old  with  stable  refraction (i.e. patients with documented evidence of a change in manifest refraction not more than 0.5 D in both sphere and cylinder components for at least one year prior to the date of pre-operative examination).
Sex … both  sexes  were involved .
Contraindications:
  • Patients with signs of keratoconus or abnormal corneal topography.
  • Patients with history of Herpes Simplex or Herpes Zoster keratitis.
  • Patients with significant dry eye that is unresponsive to treatment, or with severe allergies.
  • Patients with thin corneas (at least 250 µm residual stromal bed thickness were needed at the completion of ablation to avoid post-operative  corneal ectasia).
  • Patients with glaucoma especially with previous filtering surgeries.
  • Patients with diabetic retinopathy requiring laser photocoagulation, or with any retinal disorder that affects the post-operative visual outcome e.g. retinitis pigmentosa.
  • Previous ocular surgeries … refractive, cataract extraction, retinal surgeries, …etc.
  • Lactating  or  pregnant  females.
  • Medications  that  influence  the  healing  process  of  the  cornea  such  as  steroids   and  oral  contraceptive  pills.
Who Is Not Candidate For Lasik?
  • Pregnant women.
  • People with unhealthy corneas, people with keratoconus.
  • People with cataracts.
  • People taking drugs that might effect cornea or that may cause dry eyes: Accutane(isoretinoin) or Cordarone (amiodarone).
  • People having unstable refractions (more than 0.5 diopter change during the previous year).
  • People having active collagen disorders or autoimmunological disorders such as  AIDS, lupus etc.
  • People having psychiatric or psychological problem.