In Colorado, laser eye surgery is performed perhaps more than in any other area of the United States. Colorado laser eye surgery candidates have ready access to a large pool of qualified ophthalmologists, trained in the most up-to-date laser eye surgery techniques, designed to improve your unaided vision and reduce dependency on corrective lenses.
Whether you're one of those coming from out-of-state or a resident of Colorado, laser eye surgery can consist of any one of several surgical procedures, including LASIK (which is the most common), LASEK, or similar techniques known as EPI-LASIK, or intralase. You may have heard of RK, or "Radial Keratotomy." RK involved making actual incisions with a fine scalpel in spoke-pattern around the eye in order to change the shape of the cornea. This procedure is now considered outdated. For most people surrounding states as well as in Colorado, laser eye surgery simply means a LASIK procedure.
LASIK stands for Laser Assisted in-SItu Keratomileusis. This type of laser eye surgery is used to treat near-sightedness (myopia), far-sightedness (hyperopia) and astigmatism. A precision laser is used to cut a flap of tissue on your cornea, or the lens of your eye. The purpose of LASIK is to change the shape of the cornea. If you are near-sighted or far-sighted, the shape of your eyeball has changed. In either case, light images entering you eye through the lens of the cornea is not focused correctly when it strikes the retina - which is the part of your eye that records images (like film in your camera) and sends these to the brain for processing. Laser eye surgery alters the cornea, or "camera lens" of you eye, in such a way that corrects this focus.
Not all Colorado laser eye surgery seekers may be suitable candidates for the procedure, but the vast majority will experience substantial benefits. Consultation with a qualified optometrists or ophthalmologists at Icon will help you in determining if laser eye surgery is the right course of treatment to improve your vision.
Icon is fortunate because of our experience and sophisticated Colorado laser eye surgery facilities, many patients even come to Colorado from Nebraska, Wyoming, and Arizona in order to receive treatment.
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