Vision issues are common, and having prescription glasses or contacts is a common part of daily life for many people. However, not everyone wants to wear glasses and can find regular care of contacts to be annoying to keep up with. The use of LASIK Long Beach offers a method of correcting your vision, reducing the need for glasses, and in some cases improving your vision to the point where you don’t need glasses at all.
Who LASIK Helps
Typically, LASIK helps those who have eye conditions that require corrective lenses. Glasses or contacts are required when the eye doesn’t refract the light coming into the eye correctly. This mis-bending of light is usually caused by the shape of the cornea in the eye. This leads to common vision conditions such as farsightedness, nearsightedness, and astigmatism. Each condition impacts vision, but all have the same root cause, a misshaped cornea. The cornea can be too steep, too flat, or simply not be shaped correctly to properly bounce light onto the retina. LASIK reshapes the cornea to improve your overall vision.
Benefits of LASIK
LASIK in many cases can completely remove the need for glasses or contacts. There are many reasons for wanting to do this. You may not want to wear glasses due to their impact on appearance, but you cannot wear contacts. LASIK offers a solution. Some activities require you not to wear glasses or contacts for safety purposes if you want to undertake such activities, correcting your vision is needed. Finally, the convenience of not having to wear glasses or contacts means there is one less thing for you to worry about or keep track of.
Situations Where LASIK Is Not Ideal
While LASIK is generally a very safe procedure, not everyone can undergo the treatment. Those who should avoid LASIK include those who have changed their glasses or contact prescription in the last year, are on medications that impact their vision, are too young (20 and younger), are pregnant, or have thin corneas that are unsuited for laser surgery.
The Results
While you can return to general activity after LASIK within a short period, recovery does take longer. It can take up to six months for your eyes to fully heal and your vision to completely stabilize. Your vision can vary as you recover, but these fluxes are normal and do lessen over time. After full recovery, you will notice a consistent improvement in your vision.