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While LASIK is a relatively
low risk surgery, bladeless LASIK eliminates the one area where most
complications arise, the metal blade. Aside from the fear it strikes into
the heart of those who fear traditional surgery, it still has a very human
error rate in a very difficult low-percentage situation.
While many people who are
rejected for LASIK are rejected for thin corneas, bladeless LASIK offers
these people a second chance. IntraLase lasers offer a more controlled
environment in the bladeless LASIK surgery. Instead of cutting through with
a blade, the laser is guided by computer technology.
The IntraLase laser allows
for more curvature during the bladeless LASIK surgery, reducing the margin
for error. The fact that it is a laser and not a blade also lends to the
idea of avoiding infections or contaminations. Bladeless LASIK prevents
long-term recovery that accompanies most surgeries.
Prior to LASIK a lot of
people had unsafe or imperfect surgeries to correct vision that eliminated
them from the opportunity to try LASIK. With bladeless LASIK, these
potential customers get a second chance because of the near 100% success
rate of the procedure.
Some patients follow
traditional LASIK with follow-ups to make other corneal flaps or reduce
eye-irritation. Bladeless LASIK with InterLase appear to have reduced the
possibility of this happening.
The natural reaction to the
thought of bladeless LASIK is that it eliminates the need for a practiced
and season doctor to perform the surgery. While it may be true to a point,
the fact is that bladeless LASIK requires a good deal of knowledge in
physics and engineering.
While surgeons may have only
been required to have knowledge of medicine and anatomy in the past, they
now must be computer savvy. The advantages of bladeless LASIK seem to boil
down to two basic ideas, a higher success rate and less chance of follow-up
procedures.
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