Lasik Patients

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Patients are usually more uncomfortable for the first seven to 10 days. Patients from Honolulu and others areas of Hawaii can find out if they are eligible for LASIK by contacting Aloha Laser Vision today. Patients interested in monovision may benefit from a trial period with monovision contacts lenses prior to surgery.

Patients can also achieve monovision by having one eye corrected for up close vision and one eye corrected for distance vision through LASIK. Learn more about monovision and how this treatment works. Patients who wear soft contact lenses or rigid gas-permeable contact lenses should discontinue their contact lens wear at least 10 to 14 days prior to the evaluation. One or more careful refractions (determinations of eyeglass correction needed) will be completed. Patient compliance is generally not satisfactory relating to the lens care and maintenance schedules. However, they do give us a reversible alternative for vision correction especially in circumstances where other modalities are either not advisable (young individuals with unstable error) or not possible (scarred or irregular cornea).

Patients with thin corneas, high degrees of aberration, severely dry eyes or conditions that affect the lens or vitreous fluid inside the eye may not be good candidates. However, many of these patients may still be good candidates for conventional LASIK. Patients are asked to return home, get plenty of rest on the first night and use the eye drops to aid in the healing process. Patients experience a quick, virtually painless procedure with potential for 20/20 or better vision and unparalleled safety through reduced flap complications.

Patients should also refrain from wearing their contacts prior to surgery. Patients who cannot have LASIK would be people with thin corneas, dry eyes, or other eye diseases.

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