NEW LASER CORRECTION

NEW LASER CORRECTION (REIKP)

The acquired experience of excimer laser surgery has proved that the combined method of photorefractive keratoectomy with fine microsurgery technique has advantages over other operations. Special requirement to ametropia correction precision привели resulted in developing at our clinic an absolutely new operation which was named refractive modifying excimer laser intrastromal keratoectomy with protection (REIKP). The prototype of the REIKP operation is LASIK.

A lot of experience in refractive surgery acquired by leading ophthalmology clinics of the world within these years and permanent analysis of the data received enabled to detect certain unwanted moments of the procedure performed in accordance with the universally recognised method of LASIK affecting the final result.
Introduction of changes at all the stages of the operation including preliminary sparing local anaesthesia (pain relief) enables to imrove the quality of the procedure performed and speeds up the rehabilitation process greatly. Complete revision of the whole operation course enabled to single out the REIKP as an absolutely independent and new operation in its quality which eliminates refraction anomalies.


During this procedure unlike during the PRK prior to the laser influence the surgeon forms a thin rag of the cornea surface layers with a microkertom and lays it in a special way. Computer modelling of the cornea optic surface with laser doesn't touch its surface layers. This method enables to operate on the both eyes simultaneously. THe patients' eyesight recovers within several hours after the operation. The REIKP procedure is absolutely painless and endured well even by children.

The procedure period is less than 1-2 minutes. Within 1.5-2 hours after the operation slight lachrymation, photophobia and winking discomfort can be observed. All this time the patient is under observation of our specialists. The REIKP enables to reach high visual acuity with all the patients and improve their satisfaction with the operation result. During this operation we use only NIDEK-EC 5000 excimer laser and the best keratom by MORIA (France).

Contact lenses

Contact lenses which became widespread in the middle of the fifties of the 20th century have a number of advantages over spectacles and can for today offer normal life even to a very active person going in for sports. Nonetheless, wearing them is also connected to certain inconvenience. A lot of people just can't get used to a foreign body in the eye. But even if you have adapted to lenses well sometimes they cause irritation and can contribute to bringing an infection, which, in its turn, can cause serious, up to blindness, consequences. They are contraindicated for wearing during any, even the lightest, colds. The process of taking the lenses off and putting them on is rather unpleasant and, worse than that, can fall out at the most unsuitable moment.

In an attempt to get rid of the inconvenience connected to wearing spectacles or contact lenses more and more people resort to the surgeon's help.

Spectacles

The most widespread method of shortsightedness correction is spectacles. With all their advantages spectacles bring a lot of inconvenience to their owner: they get dirty all the time, steam up, sli off from the bridge of the nose, prevent from going in for sports or just engage in physical activity. In order to avoid the overstrain of the eyes spectacles are chosing by the 8th line of the table and, as a result, do not provide 100 % of teh eyesight. They limit the side vision greatly, affect the stereoscopic effect and space perception, which is especially important for drivers and in case of an accident the broken lenses can cause a serious trauma. Besides, the incorrectly chosen spectacles can be the reason for the constant overstrain of the eyes and gradual development of eye diseases connected to it.