By john mce
Laser eye surgery has certainly become very popular recently, despite the eyes being very complex parts of your body, it is a fairly easy procedure with very high success rates and eye opening results. However little is known about what laser eye surgery actually involves and who it can help.
Short sightedness, medical term myopia, means that you can't focus on distant objects, which makes them look blurred. Myopia is very common and tends to run in families. The condition is caused when your cornea is too curved, or your eyeball too long, light rays from distant objects focus in front of your retina. This makes objects seem fuzzy or blurred. Around five million people in Britain are short-sighted. The condition usually develops in childhood or adolescence and is often first noticed at school.
Hyperopia is a sight problem that affects your ability to see close-up objects. Commonly known as long-sightedness, the condition is a type of focusing error, and tends to get worse as you get older. Hyperopia occurs when the eyeball is too short in relation to the focusing power of the cornea and lens. This means that light rays travel to |
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By Adam Kalloh
Many people have had to go through all the taunts and teases while growing up due to a birth defect that may have cause a sight impairment, while other may have gradually lost sight over the years from any number of possible reasons that have left them stuck wearing glasses. To many people, wearing of glasses can be an annoyance as well as cause some self esteem issues. The truth is, that for many, the need to wear glasses is no more.
It is common place now for people that have worn eyeglasses for the last 20 years to undergo laser eye surgery and no longer need the eyeglasses ever again. It makes them a whole new person.
This laser eye surgery has been around for a while, but the truth is, the longer it is around the better it gets. Some eye plans are even starting to recognize this procedure now that is has been performed enough to no longer be considered new.
Laser eye surgery is known by many names, but the one that is known the most is of course LASIK. LASIK is an acronym which actually means laser eye |
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