What Happens During a LASIK Consultation?

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Do you have blurry vision caused by refractive errors like nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism? If you want to permanently improve your vision, LASIK could be the right treatment for you.

With LASIK, you can enhance your eyesight while reducing or eliminating the need for glasses and contacts. Before undergoing the procedure, you’ll need to attend a consultation with your eye doctor to determine whether you are a good candidate for LASIK.

Keep reading to learn more about what happens during a LASIK consultation and whether the procedure could be right for you!

How Can LASIK Improve Your Vision?

LASIK is a vision correction procedure that involves using specialized lasers to reshape your cornea. The cornea is a clear structure at the front of the eye that bends light back to the retina.

When the cornea isn’t the right shape, it causes vision problems like nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. Your LASIK surgeon can correct these common refractive errors by changing the shape of the cornea to allow light to hit the retina at the optimal angle for clear vision.

After LASIK, many patients are able to reduce or entirely eliminate their dependence on glasses and contacts.

What Are the Steps of a LASIK Consultation? 

While LASIK is a popular procedure that has brought millions of patients clearer vision, not everyone is a good candidate. To ensure the procedure will be safe for you and suit your visual needs, you must undergo a LASIK consultation with your eye doctor at Stahl Eyecare Experts consisting of:

A Comprehensive Eye Exam

To be a good candidate for LASIK, you must have eyes that are healthy enough for the procedure. Your eye doctor may perform various tests to screen for conditions that could disqualify you from LASIK, like glaucoma, severe dry eye, or cataracts.

They will also measure the thickness of your corneas, as the procedure is unsafe for patients with thin corneas. During LASIK, a small flap is made in the cornea to access and reshape the tissue underneath.

This can pose a risk for patients with thin corneas, who are often better suited for procedures like PRK. Aside from the health of your eyes, you must also have a prescription that’s within the range LASIK can correct.

Your eye doctor will perform refraction testing to help determine whether LASIK could be suitable for your visual needs.

Questions About Your Medical and Vision History

During the consultation, you’ll also be asked about your medical and vision history. If you have autoimmune conditions like lupus, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, or Sjogren’s syndrome, you may not be a good candidate for LASIK, as they can affect how you heal from the procedure.

Vision stability also plays a large role in LASIK candidacy. This is because unstable vision could impact the results of the procedure.

You must have had stable vision for at least one year before undergoing LASIK, and you cannot be under 18 or pregnant or nursing, as hormonal shifts can cause prescription changes.

Discussing Your Lifestyle and Visual Goals

Your eye doctor at Stahl Eyecare Experts can answer any questions you have about the procedure and results to help you decide whether LASIK suits your lifestyle and visual goals. If you want to experience clear, high-definition vision and eliminate the hassles that come with glasses and contacts, LASIK could be right for you.

However, if you participate in contact sports like boxing, you may want to consider PRK, as it could be a better option for you. This is because the flap created during LASIK has the potential to become dislodged due to injury.

If your eye doctor determines you are a good candidate for LASIK, the next step is scheduling the procedure and getting excited about stunningly clear vision!

Do you want to find out whether you could be a good candidate for LASIK? Schedule a consultation at Stahl Eyecare Experts in Manhattan, NY, today!


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If you are seeking a Long Island LASIK specialist, the eye doctors at Stahl Eyecare Experts would like to offer you a great opportunity in laser eye surgery. Brought to you by professional, experienced Long Island LASIK surgeons, our one-of-a-kind medical facility brings not only cutting-edge technology, but experienced hands in ophthalmology as well. Helping you achieve your personal best vision is mission critical at our Long Island LASIK office. If LASIK cost is something that has been holding you back please feel free to review our options regarding LASIK Financing. We are dedicated to providing the best in patient education so that our patients can make a well-educated decision as to whether or not LASIK would be a good vision correction option. Remember, not everyone is a good candidate for LASIK. This is precisely why you need to have an experienced LASIK surgeon in Long Island evaluate you to make sure that this is the right eye surgery procedure for you! If LASIK is not the best procedure for you, we offer other ophthalmology procedures such as cataract surgery to help you see better. If you are seeking a Long Island cataract surgeon we are happy to offer cataract consultations to educate you about this process and determine your vision correction options.

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