Procedure & Information Technology Define San Jose Laser Eye Surgery

The accuracy with which your San Jose laser eye surgery doctor places the light's focal point on your retina, is a function of many things, including his choice of procedure and information technology.

Your San Jose eye laser surgery provider can select from two primary procedures. If you have regular corneas, he's likely to recommend LASIK. LASIK in San Jose is the most popular laser eye surgery. Once the LASIK flap has been created and lifted, San Jose LASIK patients undergo a depth-based ablation procedure (ablation = tissue removal).

If on the other hand, you're corneas are thin or irregular, you're not likely to qualify for LASIK in San Jose. Your San Jose laser eye surgery doctor is likely to recommend instead, a surface-based ablation procedure, such as LASEK or PRK.

Once the ablation (via LASIK, LASEK, or PRK) approach is decided, your San Jose eye laser surgery provider has a final choice to make: which of the two information technologies — conventional or Wavefront — will he use?

It should be obvious that even before he operates, your San Jose laser eye surgery provider must make some critical decisions about what combination of procedural approach (e.g., San Jose LASIK or PRK) and information technology (e.g., conventional or Wavefront) he'll use to treat you. These decisions not only reflect on his experience and integrity, but they will ultimately, and fundamentally, change the way you relate to the seeing world.

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