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Laser Vue - LaserVue
LASIK is a
surgical procedure intended to reduce a person's dependency on glasses or
contact lenses. LASIK stands for Laser-Assisted In Situ
Keratomileusis and is a procedure that permanently changes the shape of
the cornea, the clear covering of the front of the eye, using an excimer
laser. A surgical knife, called a microkeratome, is used
to cut a flap in the cornea. A hinge is left at one end of this flap. The
flap is folded back revealing the stroma, the middle section of the
cornea. Pulses from a computer-controlled laser vaporize a portion of the
stroma and the flap is replaced.
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