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While LASIK is a relatively low risk surgery, blade-less LASIK eliminates the
one area where most complications arise, the metal blade. Aside from the
fear it strikes into the heart of those who fear traditional surgery, it still has a
very human error rate in a very difficult low-percentage situation.
While many people who are rejected for LASIK are rejected for thin corneas,
bladeless LASIK offers these people a second chance. IntraLase lasers offer
a more controlled environment in the bladeless LASIK surgery. Instead of
cutting through with a blade, the laser is guided by computer technology.
The IntraLase laser allows for more curvature during the bladeless LASIK
surgery, reducing the margin for error. The fact that it is a laser and not a
blade also lends to the idea of avoiding infections or contaminations.
Bladeless LASIK prevents long-term recovery that accompanies most
surgeries.
Prior to LASIK a lot of people had unsafe or imperfect surgeries to correct
vision that eliminated them from the opportunity to try LASIK. With bladeless
LASIK, these potential customers get a second chance because of the near
100% success rate of the procedure.
Some patients follow traditional LASIK with follow-ups to make other corneal
flaps or reduce eye-irritation. Bladeless LASIK with InterLase appear to have
reduced the possibility of this happening.
The natural reaction to the thought of bladeless LASIK is that it eliminates the
need for a practiced and season doctor to perform the surgery. While it may
be true to a point, the fact is that bladeless LASIK requires a good deal of
knowledge in physics and engineering.
While surgeons may have only been required to have knowledge of medicine
and anatomy in the past, they now must be computer savvy. The advantages
of bladeless LASIK seem to boil down to two basic ideas, a higher success
rate and less chance of follow-up procedures. |
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