Alternative treatment to Lasik – when does it apply?
Posted by Dr Boothe on June 21, 2011Dr. Boothe of Boothe Laser Center is a qualified eye surgeon who has been helping people regain their vision and in many cases improve their life. Lasik and IntraLasik laser surgery are suited for majority of patients. Sometimes a patient is deemed as not a good candidate for laser eye surgery. In that case Dr. Boothe will consider alternative treatments to Lasik surgery, one of them is Epi-Lasik.
Epi-Lasik is an efficient procedure to improve vision. Patients with myopic astigmatism may be good candidates for this option. The major difference between a typical Lasik and Epi-Lasik procedures is in the length of the postoperative period. In comparisons made by researchers patients who had Lasik surgery had better visual abilities one month after surgery compared with patients who underwent an Epi-Lasik procedure. However, three month later some Epi-Lasik patients managed to achieve better than 20/20 vision and overall their visual abilities were identical to patients who had a Lasik surgery. In addition, patients who underwent an Epi-Lasik had fewer high-order aberrations after three months, in comparison with Lasik patients.