LASIK Eye Surgery for Your Vision Correction

Do you dream of ditching your glasses and achieving excellent vision without contact lenses? LASIK eye surgery may be the perfect solution to your vision correction needs in Lakewood, CO. Denver Eye Surgeons offers this innovative treatment option to help our patients see clearly and free themselves from frames and lenses. We value treatment options for various visual impairments that are safe and highly effective. LASIK has grown into one of the industry’s most popular and successful vision correction surgeries available to patients throughout the nation. Let us explain some essential information about this procedure to help you decide if LASIK is an option you want to pursue.

What Is LASIK Eye Surgery?

Eyecare professionals everywhere recommend the LASIK procedure to patients because of its high success rate and proven safety. Millions of people worldwide have taken advantage of LASIK to correct their vision through refractive surgery. LASIK eye surgery corrects your vision by using an excimer laser to change your corneas’ shape. We use the laser to sculpt your corneas and base treatment on a unique map of your eyes and your individual prescription. This technology lets eye surgeons treat various vision impairments, including nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. LASIK is one of the Denver area’s most popular procedures to correct vision and escape glasses and contacts. Denver Eye Surgeons happily provides LASIK to patients, starting with an evaluation to determine their candidacy.

Denver Eye Surgeons’ Impressive Eye Care

Denver Eye Care’s facility has a cutting-edge outpatient surgery center, using the latest tools and equipment to ensure optimal results on any procedure. Our surgeons offer all-laser LASIK eye surgery using an IntraLase laser for blade-free treatment and the excimer ALLEGRETTO WAVE Eye Q laser. These lasers are state-of-the-art technology, letting us offer fast, safe, customized, and precise laser vision correction. We provide a comfortable, supportive, and friendly environment when seeking treatment at our facility. Our doctors and staff are among the most caring, experienced, and best-trained professionals in the refractive eye surgery field. We make the LASIK procedure as comfortable as possible and put your well-being and treatment success as our top priorities.

Customized Treatment for Your Unique Vision

Customized vision correction procedures are possible thanks to custom wavefront or LASIK technology development. ALLEGRETTO WAVE laser vision correction originates from the Hubble Telescope project. Scientists developed wavefront technology because they needed to examine visual information one pixel at a time. Denver Eye Surgeons proudly utilizes this technology at our office to ensure patients have a custom solution to their vision impairments. One unique feature of the ALLEGRETTO WAVE laser technology is it automatically compensates for your cornea’s curvature using wavefront-optimized technology. This development separates custom LASIK procedures from earlier laser correction procedures. Earlier procedures would result in a flat circular area and cause halos, glare, and poor night vision issues.

Benefits of LASIK Vision Correction Procedures

Patients enjoy clear vision and freedom from frames and lenses after getting LASIK Eye Surgery to correct their vision. After recovering from your procedure, you will realize the difference in your vision. While your excellent visual clarity is the ultimate goal of a LASIK treatment, there are other exciting benefits of choosing LASIK over other options, including the following:

• LASIK uses numbing drops during the procedure, so patients associate very little pain with their experience.
• The procedure corrects your vision almost immediately or within one day after undergoing treatment.
• Getting LASIK eye surgery doesn’t require any bandages or stitches.
• As you age, eye surgeons can make adjustments to further correct your vision years after your LASIK procedure.
• After receiving LASIK treatment, most patients experience a dramatic reduction in their contact lens or eyeglasses dependence. Many patients no longer require glasses or contact lenses at all.
• About 96% of patients receiving LASIK achieve their desired vision, and we can make enhancements to increase this number.

Know if You’re a Candidate for LASIK

If you’re considering LASIK eye surgery to correct your vision at Denver Eye Surgeons, we can give you ample information on the procedure and how it can help you. We must also evaluate your patient information and certain aspects of your vision impairment to determine if you are a candidate for LASIK vision correction surgery. Your candidacy depends on some basic requirements we’ve listed below. If you fit all the following requirements, you have a good chance as a LASIK candidate. You can schedule a free LASIK consultation at our office to tell for sure if this procedure is an option. Our basic requirements for LASIK candidacy include the following:

• You have healthy eyes.
• You’re at least 19 years old or older.
• Your glasses prescription is stable for one year or longer.
• You have a prescription with less than -10.00 diopters of nearsightedness, less than +6.00 of farsightedness, or astigmatism of less than 6.00 diopters.

What to Expect Before, During, & After the Procedure

The LASIK procedure’s success and safety are compelling reasons to receive this vision correction procedure. Patients enjoy significantly less pain and recovery time during and after treatment, and the success rate includes 96% of patients getting the vision they want. Before receiving LASIK to correct your vision impairment, we recommend reviewing our essential information about what to expect before, during, and after the procedure:

Prepping for Your Procedure

We ask you not to wear contacts for a week if that’s your current vision correction method (contacts can change your cornea’s shape). Additionally, don’t wear makeup on the day of your procedure. Taking any medication other than valium or XANAX is fine, and you can eat whatever you want. We submit your prescription eye drops to your local pharmacy a week before your procedure, and you can pick up preservative-free artificial tears, as well.

During Your Procedure

When you arrive at our office, we re-check your eyes to verify nothing has changed. We use this information to program the laser correctly. In the surgery room, we use iodine or salinizing solution to clean the outside of your eyes. A sedative may be an option we can administer at this time, and we’ll discuss this option during your consultation and planning. After scrubbing, numbing, and cleaning you, we put you in the chair and position you with a machine, doing one eye at a time. After preparing your eyes, we commence the laser procedure. A laser cut the flap in your eye because we perform blade-free LASIK. The machine goes on your eye and applies pressure. We count down from 10 and then pull away the machine. Then, we flip open the flap on each eye and perform the laser portion of the procedure. Once we finish with the laser in your eyes, we flip the flaps closed and put some eye drops in your eyes.

After Your Procedure

You will leave our facility with eye care instructions, eye drops, and protective goggles to use while you sleep for the next two weeks. We’ll advise you to take a two- to four-hour nap to let your eyes heal. You might feel a burning sensation after the procedure. When you wake up from your nap, your vision may be much clearer already. You should wear sunglasses because of light sensitivity for the next 24 hours. Wear them inside and outside your home. You’ll also need to use the eye drops we prescribe you and artificial tears. Your vision the day after surgery will likely be crystal clear, but you must keep following our instructions.

Crystal Clear Vision in Lakewood, CO

Denver Eye Surgeons looks forward to helping you see clearly without glasses or contact lenses. LASIK eye surgery corrects your vision with long-term results, and the efficacy rate is too extraordinary to ignore. Contact us today to learn more about the LASIK procedure and schedule a free LASIK consultation.