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I have never had Lasik eye surgery, although I have had both of my human lenses replaced with plastic ones. However, I wanted to help a friend retell his story of Lasik eye surgery, because I know from my own experience that there is a great deal of nonsense talked about having eye surgery of any kind.

I robustly urge anyone who is thinking about having cataracts removed, Lasik eye surgery or total lens replacement to go ahead and have it done as soon as they can. There will be no looking back, I assure you and you will live in a brighter world again that you had not noticed had been growing gradually but surely ever dimmer.

I shall name my friend Fred to make it easier for me to tell his story and that of numerous others who have been in a equivalent position to him. Fred wore specs all his life or from the time that he was in the Navy doing his national conscription service at any rate.

He got used to this predicament, but was growing alarmed at the speed that his spectacles were increasing in power year on year and the increasing dependency he had on them.

After months of worry and talking to ‘friends’ in bars, he resolved to go talk to the only other person whose opinion actually mattered – the Lasik surgeon. He was fairly nervous that they would say that his eyesight was too far gone, but he was also worried that they would say he could have the operation because he had a terror of anyone doing anything to his eyes which could rob him of the little bit of vision that he still had.

The surgeon said that both of his eyes could benefit from surgery, one maybe a little more than the other, but that he would definitely still need spectacles for the rest of his life, albeit weaker ones than he was using now. In effect, the surgeon was stating that he could restore most of Fred’s long-distance vision but that at his age, 63, he would still need reading specs.

Fred turned up on the day of the first operation having not been to the pub and having had an early night. In his circumstances they operated on one eye at a time with a week in between the operations. They started each session by putting drops in his eye. These drops dilate and numb the eye although the eyeball does not actually feel any pain.

The operations lasted around three minutes each, but Fred is not certain how much of that was ‘laser time’. He said there was a sensation of intense white light, but no pain whatsoever. He was told to rest in the waiting room for thirty minutes afterwards and then he went home.

On his medical doctor’s recommendation he had taken a friend with him, because your old glasses will not fit on top of the protective shield on your treated eye. This shield had to be worn for 24 hours to stop Fred from poking or rubbing his eye inadvertently.

Fred had taken the next day off work, but he says there was no need and he did not bother the next time. Fred’s eyes have improved hundreds of percent and occasionally he can even read without spectacles too.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on a number of topics, but is now concerned with macular degeneration glasses. If you want to know more, please go to our website at Macular Degenerative Disease

Lasik surgery has hugely improved the vision of millions of individuals worldwide. It has turned the visually impaired into sighted individuals who are capable of seeing their children again and contributing to the family’s income by working. Two items that millions considered they would never be able to do again.

However, Lasik eye surgery has not been sitting on its laurels. Far from it, Lasik surgery techniques are being improved all the time. One such enhancement is Wavefront Technology. Wavefront Technology with relation to Lasik eye surgery is used to more precisely map the patient’s eyeball, which makes more exact surgery possible.

This is of immense importance because eyeballs are not all the same shape. They are like hands, superficially they all look the same, but once you get down to particulars, they are not. There are all shapes sizes and proportions. The same is true for eyes.

The more precise the map of the eye, the more chance that the surgeon has of giving you the best vision possible, considering the precise problems that you have in your particular case. Wavefront Technology helps the surgeon achieve this.

Wavefront Technology is really a technology that has been adapted from astronomy. in astronomical telescopes it is crucial that the lenses are as flawless as they can be, because at high magnification, even the very slightest impairment would lead to huge distortions, which in turn would render the telescope just about useless.

Astronomers were using this technology in the 1970′s, so it was already quite advanced when some bright spark noticed that it could become adapted for use in eye surgery too. Wavefront Technology was born and taken on board by Lasik and other eye surgeons with great expectations.

In fact, the bright spark who recognized the potential value of this piece of astronomical technology was a German physician named Josef Bille who began using it in his practice.

He gradually enhanced and adapted the sensors and announced it to the Lasik manufacturers in 1997. This in turn allowed the manufacturers of Lasik equipment to adapt Wavefront Technology to their own apparatus.

Wavefront Technology is extremely complicated in design and technology but also highly simple to understand. The Wavefront machine sends a flat sheet of light (called a wavefront) through the eye to the retina, which reflects it back to the Wavefront device.

The Wavefront machine compares the two, measures the imperfections, chooses what has to be done to right them and guides the laser to the correct spot in order to accomplish the corrections. As simple as that!

However, the geniuses who invented and modified Wavefront Technology did not stop there. They have their machine send in multiple wavefronts from various angles so that the computer can build up a three dimensional picture for even more precision.

There are now well over 60 patterns that can be automatically corrected by a Lasik laser guided by Wavefront Technology. So, if you have any issues with long or short sightedness, create an appointment to see your Lasik surgeon as soon as they can.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on a number of topics, but is now concerned with macular degeneration glasses. If you would like to know more, please go to our website at Macular Degenerative Disease