Laser Eye Surgery - What are your expectations?
The success of laser eye surgery (as with any elective surgery), is measured by how the outcome matches your before-surgery expectations. Are your expectations realistic? Can your expectations be met by laser eye surgery? Before undergoing laser eye surgery, you should talk to your surgeon, as they would be required to give you the necessary talking through on what good vision means to you. Laser eye surgery can greatly improve your vision but no procedure can promise 'perfect vision' to every patient. Ask most individuals - they will tell you with a straight face that laser eye surgery would be their path towards 20/20 vision. However, at the end of the day, they will probably be more than happy with 20/30.
Laser eye surgery can give mild to moderately nearsighted (distant objects are not clear) patients a 90% chance to be able to drive during the day without glasses. Most patients who undergo this surgery would still be required to wear glasses in the evening while driving, which is certainly a ways better than what they used to deal with. Extremely nearsighted patients who view the world through thick glasses are often not able to be fitted with contacts to correct their vision. For these patients, laser eye surgery can be a life saver and they are some of the most satisfied patients following eye surgery. No longer do these patients have to wear thick glasses and be associated with bookworms even if they couldn't even read properly, let alone do "non-bookworm" activities like sports. These people finally feel that yes, they don't look that bad after all, and when it comes to sports, they can finally play, perhaps for the first time since they got cut from the Little League team all those years back.
Being able to read the 20/20 line on the optometrist's eye chart is not an automatic sign of good vision, not by a longshot it isn't. Vision has several facets which we should all consider when it comes to evaluating whether we have good vision or not. Depth of field. Can you see clearly from near to far?
Night vision. Can you see clearly in low light conditions?
Color vision. Do you know whether red is red or green is green, or do you mix them up with each other?
Contrast sensitivity. Can you distinguish different shades of gray?
bi-ocular vision. Do your eyes work together?
Would laser eye surgery give you joy once the surgery is completed and everything said and done? Expectations may vary from person to person, so you will want to talk to your surgeon and share these expectations with him or her. Are you happy to have something that isn't quite 20/20 vision if that would mean an end to being marginalized for wearing thick glasses (or having to bear with the inconvenience of contacts), or is it a case of having 100% perfect vision or no vision at all?
The success of laser eye surgery (as with any elective surgery), is measured by how the outcome matches your before-surgery expectations. Are your expectations realistic? Can your expectations be met by laser eye surgery? Before undergoing laser eye surgery, you should talk to your surgeon, as they would be required to give you the necessary talking through on what good vision means to you. Laser eye surgery can greatly improve your vision but no procedure can promise 'perfect vision' to every patient. Ask most individuals - they will tell you with a straight face that laser eye surgery would be their path towards 20/20 vision. However, at the end of the day, they will probably be more than happy with 20/30.
Laser eye surgery can give mild to moderately nearsighted (distant objects are not clear) patients a 90% chance to be able to drive during the day without glasses. Most patients who undergo this surgery would still be required to wear glasses in the evening while driving, which is certainly a ways better than what they used to deal with. Extremely nearsighted patients who view the world through thick glasses are often not able to be fitted with contacts to correct their vision. For these patients, laser eye surgery can be a life saver and they are some of the most satisfied patients following eye surgery. No longer do these patients have to wear thick glasses and be associated with bookworms even if they couldn't even read properly, let alone do "non-bookworm" activities like sports. These people finally feel that yes, they don't look that bad after all, and when it comes to sports, they can finally play, perhaps for the first time since they got cut from the Little League team all those years back.
Being able to read the 20/20 line on the optometrist's eye chart is not an automatic sign of good vision, not by a longshot it isn't. Vision has several facets which we should all consider when it comes to evaluating whether we have good vision or not. Depth of field. Can you see clearly from near to far?
Night vision. Can you see clearly in low light conditions?
Color vision. Do you know whether red is red or green is green, or do you mix them up with each other?
Contrast sensitivity. Can you distinguish different shades of gray?
bi-ocular vision. Do your eyes work together?
Would laser eye surgery give you joy once the surgery is completed and everything said and done? Expectations may vary from person to person, so you will want to talk to your surgeon and share these expectations with him or her. Are you happy to have something that isn't quite 20/20 vision if that would mean an end to being marginalized for wearing thick glasses (or having to bear with the inconvenience of contacts), or is it a case of having 100% perfect vision or no vision at all?
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