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Ophthalmic Treatments
Ophthalmic treatments have become commonplace for the average person in the US, Canada and Europe. Laser correction surgery is performed thousands of times everyday throughout the world. Your surgeon at Hospital Punta Pacifica, Affiliated with Johns Hopkins Medicine International, is skilled, trained and ready to help. By resurfacing your cornea, you can have vision that is close to, or better than 20 / 20. The team at Hospital Punta Pacifica, Affiliated with Johns Hopkins Medicine International, offers you an affordable medical solution with incredible results.

Prior to Surgery
Your doctor will also look for signs of dry eye disease, which must be treated and cleared up before LASIK can be performed.

Also, a corneal topographer is usually used; this device photographs your eye and creates a kind of "map" of your cornea. With new wavefront technology associated with custom LASIK, you also are likely to undergo a wavefront analysis that sends light waves through the eye to provide an even more precise map of aberrations affecting your vision.

The Procedure
An instrument called a microkeratome is used in LASIK eye surgery to create a thin, circular flap in the cornea. Another, newer way of making the flap is with a laser.

The surgeon folds the flap back out of the way, and then removes some corneal tissue underneath using an excimer laser. The excimer laser uses a cool ultraviolet light beam to precisely remove very tiny bits of tissue from the cornea to reshape it. When the cornea is reshaped in the right way, it works better to focus light into the eye and onto the retina, providing clearer vision than before. The flap is then laid back in place, covering the area where the corneal tissue was removed. Both nearsighted and farsighted people can benefit from the LASIK procedure. With nearsighted people, the goal is to flatten the too-steep cornea; with farsighted people, a steeper cornea is desired. While this is not widely recognized by consumers, excimer lasers also can correct astigmatism by smoothing an irregular cornea into a more normal shape.

After Your Surgery
After the procedure is finished, you will rest for a little while. If you're having both eyes done the same day, the surgeon will probably do the other eye after a short period of time. Some people choose to have their second eye done at the same time. The actual procedure time is 5 – 10 minutes per eye.

Risks
Some risks reported have included night vision difficulties, LASIK flap dislocation, and dry eye. These problems are infrequent although they are possibilities.

While there is always an element of risk, having an American-trained surgeon, a professional staff and a world-class hospital make your Panama brow lift at Hospital Punta Pacifica, Affiliated with Johns Hopkins Medicine International, a safe and rewarding procedure.