Myths and facts about laser eye surgery
Myths about Laser Eye Surgery:-
- LASER surgery is painful or dangerous
- I’ll never need glasses, or I’ll still need glasses
- It results can wear off
- The activities are limited during a long recovery
- Everyone can have Laser surgery.
Facts about Laser surgery:-
- The laser treatment is pain-free, and it’s quick. You’ll get multiple doses of eye anaesthetic eye drops and the actual laser time is about one minute for each eye.
- After laser surgery, you may not need glasses if you are young. But it can’t stop the effects of ageing so, in old age. People with a high aberration in their vision will have to wear glasses.
- Due to some misshapen. The laser surgery may cause nearsightedness or farsightedness but your eyes don’t revert. So, the procedure doesn’t wear off.
- You need to take care of your eyes only for a week from surgery. You can come back to normal activities after 24 hours of surgery.
- Most people can have this kind of surgery but your medical history and the problem you have will decide it. And candidates can’t have laser surgery until the age of 18 years, etc.
