Monday, January 12, 2009

Lasik's Non-Surgical Alternatives

Lasik's Non-Surgical Alternatives

Executive summary about Lasik's Non-Surgical Alternatives By: Luis Zhang

You may wish to consider contact lenses, Orthokeratology (Ortho-K), or, that old standby, eyeglasses. Contact lens

Putting aside Lasik, there is a huge variety of contact lens designed for usual and special needs on the market today.

There are soft, comfortable lenses that you can discard after a day or a month, and rigid gas permeable lenses that can last years and provide sharper, clearer vision than soft lenses.


Soft lenses

This type of lens absorbs moisture and takes the shape of the eye with more ease. Even lasik deals with astigmatism. With rigid contacts, you can differentiate between the left and right eyes and select toric lenses for astigmatism. Ortho-K uses rigid gas permeable contact lenses to train the shape of the cornea. After lasik, vision improvement occurs in days. With Ortho-K, as the cornea changes shape with time, the vision will keep on improving until the lenses are worn less and less each day. Stick with eyeglasses

If lasik and contact lenses are not for you, the only left possibility is to stick with your eyeglasses. Nowadays, lenses are made lighter and stronger with more scratch resistance. Advantages

Some benefits you get from this is that they are less expensive than contact lenses or lasik surgery.

There are soft, comfortable lenses that you can discard after a day or a month, and rigid gas permeable lenses that can last years and provide sharper, clearer vision than soft lenses.



Rigid lenses


LASIK deals with astigmatism. Seven-day continuous wear lenses and 30-day continuous wear lenses have recently been approved by the FDA.



Ortho-k


LASIK uses surgery to change the shape of the cornea. It uses rigid gas permeable contact lenses. After LASIK, vision improvement occurs in days. With Ortho-K, as the cornea changes shape over the weeks, improving the vision, the lenses are worn less frequently.



Good Old Eyeglasses


If LASIK or contact lenses are not for you, there is another alternative. Lenses are lighter, stronger, more scratch resistant. Some advantages to this option are less expense than contact lenses or LASIK surgery, greater ease in changing your mind, and fashion-forward styling. Even if you decide to have LASIK surgery at some future date, choosing contact lenses, Ortho-K therapy, or eyeglasses can keep you going until you make that decision.

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2 comments:

Clear View Eye Care March 23, 2009 at 12:51 PM  

Orthokeratology has great advantages for children. Since it is non-surgical it can be done on those who are under 18. This means that kids can enjoy sports, school etc. without the need for correction through the day. No more lost glasses or torn contacts.
Furthermore, children who have parents with high myopia are at risk of developing high myopia also. New studies show that orthokeratology can slow this progression. In other words, when a child reaches adulthood their nearsighted prescription could be far less than it would have been without the procedure. Clear View Eye Care

Unknown May 21, 2009 at 7:36 AM  

Orthokeratology contact lens devices worn overnight which brace your current prescription much like dental retainers brace your teeth.Also known as OrthoK, CRT, corneal refractive therapy etc. If you are bothered by annual changes in your eyeglass and contact lens prescription or are concerned that your vision is worsening, this may be the solution for you. This method of non-surgical reversal of myopia has been around for over 30 years. In many cases temporarily reverses significant amounts of myopia and astigmatism and in most cases people who wear it while asleep can go contact lens and eyeglass free with excellent vision during waking hours! The procedure costs much less than lasik or other vision correction surgeries and results are seen just as quickly with no surgical risk.

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