This procedure is very simple and quick. Also, it is not painful. It is performed under topical anesthesia, with drops, and it lasts between 3 and 5 minutes per eye. A soft sedative before surgery is used to help the patient get relaxed. During surgery, you will not feel pain, just a feeling of pressure during the first 15 or 20 seconds of the intervention. Laser application does not produce any sensation of pain because a “cold” laser is used. Bandages are not used after the operation and the patient can move on his own. After the surgery, the patient must go home and keep his eyes closed for 4 hours in order to aid healing and prevent the sensation of foreign bodies in the eye, which occurs during the first few hours after surgery. If you live in Cucuta, you can attend to customized lectures.
You should avoid excessive dust, contaminated environments, and baths in pools, sea or rivers are prohibited for 1 month, given that water can carry bacteria or other microbes to the place of surgery and lead to infection, which is the most feared complication in this kind of operation. Statistically speaking, this complication occurs on average every 5 to 10000 cases operated, and if it appears, it can be treated medically. For the same reason, the patient must not rub his eyes and he will be provided with a special plastic mask to use when he goes to sleep in order to avoid touching his eyes during the night. Also, contact sports should be avoided for a month.
Almost 100% of patients return to their normal day-to-day activities the same day after surgery, given that their vision allows them to drive, watch TV, use the computer, to travel and do physical exercise. We could say that the patient is disabled only the day of the surgery. Therefore, there is no need to schedule holiday or recess periods, given that the patient can return to normal activity almost immediately or only with a 1 to 2 day interruption
Yes. Contact lenses affect the surface of the eye and change the amount of visual defect that appears during the examination of vision, which does not allow the doctor to know what the actual formula of the patient is, which is important information in order to calculate the dimension of the surgery. If you plan to have surgery you should stop wearing soft contact lenses from 10 to 14 days before the operation; if you use hard lenses, you should stop wearing them at least 20 days before. This is essential, given that if the patient is traveling to have surgery, it must be taken into account when planning the trip. If the patient does not wear contact lenses or he has stopped wearing them for the periods mentioned before, surgery can be performed even the same day of the first consultation if necessary.

- Vision problems that can be operated with Lasik

  • Near-sightedness from 0.75 to 15 dioptersNear-sightedness from 0.75 to 15 diopters
  • Hyperopia from 0.75 to 7 diopters
  • Astigmatism from 0.75 to 7 diopters
  • Patients who were operated before with blades (keratotomy)
  • Patient with presbyopia
Before the procedure: Many factors that have a great influence on the results of refractive surgery must be analyzed.These factors include age, special requirements according to occupation, etc. Moreover, presence or absence of any other eye disease has to be determined, as well as the level of intraocular pressure, corneal thickness, topography and other tests that must be performed by qualified specialists in the field and with special and complementary technology. If you wear soft or disposable contact lenses, you must stop wearing them at least 10 days before the procedure. If those are semi-hard, gas permeable or hard contact lenses, you should stop wearing them at least 21 days before the surgery. This is done in order to avoid fake measurements of the surface of the induced eye lens, which may lead to wrong calculations of the laser surgery. It should be noted that although the Excimer Laser Technology offers high security and accuracy, no procedure done on humans is 100% predictable.

FAQ about Excimer Laser Surgery:

1- Is the surgery painful?
No. You will only feel a bit of pressure on the eye for about 20 seconds
2- What happens if I move my eye during surgery?
Nothing happens, given that the laser has a system that tracks the movements of the eye.
3- How much time does the surgery take?
It takes from 4 to 5 minutes per eye.
4- Does the patient have to be hospitalized?
No, it is an outpatient procedure.
5- How much time does it take to be able to see again?
The visual recovery is immediate. It will improve over the following hours.
6- When can I go back to work?
Most patients go back to work in 24 to 48 hours after the procedure.
7- Does the myopia reappear?
- Does the myopia reappear? Not really. It is rare that, in adulthood, the eye continues to grow and then becoming more myopic. Therefore, it is uncommon that, after laser correction, myopia reappears if the defect was already stable.