Laser vision correction

The most suitable method of laser vision correction is determined for the patient individually in each specific case. The choice depends on the type of visual pathology (myopia, age-related farsightedness, hypermetropia, astigmatism, other visual impairments, including retinal detachment, diabetic retinopathy), the individual characteristics of the person, and his lifestyle.

Before determining the optimal method of vision restoration, the client undergoes a complete diagnosis of vision and all parts of the eyes. On average, laser treatment takes 1-2 hours.

You can get a free consultation and choose the appropriate treatment method in our ophthalmology clinic. Leave a request on the website, and we will call you back within 10-15 minutes to answer your questions and make an appointment with an ophthalmologist. We recommend that everyone who suffers from myopia, farsightedness, astigmatism, amblyopia and other eye diseases undergo laser correction and restore the functions of the organ of vision. Our doctors not only perform vision correction using modern methods, but also monitor the patient on an outpatient basis throughout the postoperative period.

Laser correction is performed after 18 years of age. But, if ametropia progresses (eye diseases accompanied by refractive errors), laser vision correction can be done earlier. The need for surgery is determined only after a comprehensive vision diagnostics, which the patient must undergo in our clinic.

Initially, you need to sign up for a comprehensive diagnosis before laser correction. To do this, you can call us by phone, send a request online or order a call using form on the website. Our employee will call you back and clarify the details and set a date for a consultation regarding vision correction. We are located at: Moscow, st. Lobachevsky, 42с4. The examination takes 2 hours. During the vision diagnostics, the doctor eliminates contraindications to laser correction, such as diabetic retinopathy or other eye diseases, carries out the selection of the optimal method of laser vision correction taking into account the indications, prepares the patient for surgery, writes it into the operating schedule. Before diagnosis, you should not use contact lenses for 7 days.

By choosing our clinic for vision correction under the compulsory medical insurance policy in Moscow, you agree that before surgery, our specialists must obtain patient data using the clinic's diagnostic equipment. If desired, previous examinations can be taken with you to compare the results.

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Vision correction operations at the K+31 clinic are carried out by the head of the clinic of ophthalmology and eye microsurgery, candidate of medical sciences, ophthalmologist, ophthalmic surgeon Abramov Sergey Igorevich.

10-14 days before surgery, you remove contact lenses to avoid distorting the clinical picture of visual impairment. You can use glasses.

5-7 days before surgery, discard eyelash extensions and take care of the removal procedure in advance. After surgery, it will be difficult for you to care for artificial eyelashes. They can be a source of pollution.

The evening before:

• you do not drink alcohol, spicy smoked or very salty foods.
• take a bath, wash your hair.
• Go to bed early and try to get a good rest.

On the day of surgery:

• In the morning, you wash your face with a cosmetic product, do not use cream in the periorbital area, and do not use declarative cosmetics.
• Do not use perfume or other alcohol-containing cosmetic products.
• Have breakfast as usual.
• Arrive at the appointed time with your tests ready.

Before laser vision correction, you need to undergo an ophthalmological examination to make a diagnosis, determine the curvature of the corneas, its thickness, topography, other parameters and exclude contraindications. During the examination, a special agent is instilled into the eyes (this is necessary to improve the quality of diagnosis and relax the lens). It lasts for several hours (2-3) and may cause discomfort during this time.

No, refrain from driving on these days.

Yes. Laser correction can be done before pregnancy. Typically obtained after surgery the result does not change during pregnancy and after childbirth, which is one of the benefits of laser vision correction.

For patients who have undergone laser vision correction, there are no contraindications to natural childbirth.

After surgery, we prescribe drops to prevent complications. Any drug has systemic absorption and can pass into breast milk. Avoid elective surgeries during lactation.

If you feel comfortable, then the next day after surgery. In some patients during the recovery period, for example, with a thin cornea and other individual characteristics, photophobia syndrome is formed, which goes away quite quickly.

After laser correction, you can return to contact sports within a month. You can return to fitness and aerobic exercise a week later. The possibility of playing sports and issuing permission to exercise is influenced by the individual characteristics of the patient, as well as the speed of the tissue repair process. In each situation, the attending physician lifts restrictions on training individually.

In the early postoperative period (the first day after laser correction), visual stress and irritating factors should be avoided. After vision correction surgery, the patient must adhere to the following restrictions:

• Steaming procedures - 1 month
• Swimming pool, sea, diving - 1 month
• Contact sports - 1 month
• Use of decorative cosmetics - 1 week.

Before laser vision correction surgery, the ophthalmologist will definitely give the patient a reminder about what to avoid. and what needs to be done both in the early postoperative period and in subsequent periods of rehabilitation.

We observe patients on days 1, 4, 7, and 30 in standard cases. Each postoperative examination is paid separately.

Laser vision correction is considered a method of aesthetic medicine. Most often it takes place in one stage, provided that that there are indications that are determined by the doctor. If the patient is comfortable with vision correction using optics (wear glasses or contact lenses) and his condition does not require surgical intervention, then the decision about the operation is made independently.

Reviews from patients who underwent vision correction in our clinic in Moscow using the Femtolasik device indicate that many were glad to get rid of from wearing glasses or contacts, especially for people with high myopia and other problems. In these cases, correction can be is very important for improving the quality of life, for example, a person gets the opportunity to play sports. Surgical intervention carried out by experienced specialists using modern equipment, subject to the doctor’s recommendations, we guarantee maintaining a stable result from correction.

PRK is a photorefractive keratectomy, during which the upper layers of the cornea are ablated (that is, these layers are completely removed, but after correction the cornea is restored). This correction technique is considered one of the first, it was first tested in 1985. PRK is a rather traumatic method of treating retinal diseases, but it does not affect the deep layers of the cornea, only its surface. Remains the only one and often used to solve problems with visual acuity due to a thin cornea in the patient.

People with poor vision are often afraid to seek help, fearing surgery. Modern technologies and equipment, Latest generation lasers allow laser correction to be carried out quickly, without pain or serious consequences. We work with corneas of any shape, help stop the progression of the disease in order to eliminate problem, we minimally interfere with the structure of the soft tissues of the eye within the required volume. First, before surgery to correct vision, a drip of anesthesia is performed, then the procedure itself is carried out.

The essence of the surgical intervention is to create a corneal flap of a certain size. This is performed with a special surgical instrument (microkeratome) or femtosecond laser. Then the excimer laser is exposed to the cornea for up to 30 seconds. During During surgery, an eyelid speculum is placed on the patient's eyes, and the patient himself must look straight, to a special red dot.

On average, the operation lasts about 10–15 minutes under local anesthesia. Direct exposure to one eye takes from 20 seconds to 1.5 minutes. The time depends on the severity of the pathology. Sutures are not required, as a result of which the process Recovery after laser vision correction surgery is fast.