Many people are reluctant to use the laser eye surgery or lasik surgery are often called to treat eye defects that happened. They average fear of risk often associated with such blind lasik. However, an eye surgeon in the UK to introduce a solution, namely Lasik Xtra.
Lasik Xtra first introduced at the London Eye Hospital by eye surgeon Bobby Qureshi. Bobby is also claimed to be the first doctor to perform this procedure in the UK also believes this procedure could be available in the country in the next few years because of Lasik Xtra is claimed to be 'safest laser eye surgery available today'.
"Even this procedure is the biggest advances in laser eye surgery in the past 20 years to reduce the risk due to laser surgery; therefore every person should obtain this procedure instead of using a standard laser treatment," Bobby said as reported by the Daily Mail, Wednesday (17 / 7/2013).
"This procedure also ensures that the risk of developing serious complications from laser surgery actually reduced to zero," he added.
During the Lasik surgery patients or Laser-Assisted In-Situ Keratomileusis three known risk of complications often, including: corneal ectasia (where the cornea is weakened by dilaser become depressed and bloated, usually this condition can only be overcome with a corneal transplant), regression vision and epithelial ingrowth (the cells of the surface layer of the eye start to grow under the flap in the cornea).
But according to reports, there are patients who have never undergone Lasik Xtra then known to suffer from any of these serious complications as described previously.
The procedure was initially the same as the standard Lasik, Lasik Xtra difference on after undergoing surgery on the corneal surface of patients made a small flap with a femtosecond laser device then given eye drops for anesthesia.
After that, the patient's eyes are exposed to laser to remove corneal tissue to form a network that back before flapnya replaced. This procedure time by 10 minutes for each eye.
But Lasik Xtra is working by crossing fibers in the cornea to make it thicker and more resilient. Moreover given eye drops containing riboflavin earlier postoperative or vitamin B2 which has been modified and applied after laser surgery, and then 'activated' by the UV rays.
Bobby also claimed without this treatment, patients at higher risk for complications, including the need to predict other treatments in the future to address the conditions that weakened cornea.
The procedure itself has been widely used around the world and successfully treat 50,000 patients in Japan alone. For the European region, this procedure can only be obtained in the UK.
