Carter Eye Lasik Vision Correction Blog

While The Carter Eye Center has helped improve the lives of thousands with LASIK surgery, this procedure isn’t the best solution for everyone. Any reputable, experienced eye surgeon should be expert in the array of vision-improving procedures out there. LASEK, for instance, would be a viable alternative to LASIK for people whose corneas are too long or too thin for traditional LASIK.

In LASIK, the surgeon cuts into the cornea lens to create a microscopic flap to help reshape the eye. Laser energy is used inside this flap.

In LASEK, which stands for laser epithelial keratomileusis, the only incision is to the very outer layer of the cornea, the epithelium. This is less invasive than LASIK. The surgeon then uses an excimer laser directly to the outer cornea lens itself. This focused energy reshapes the outer lens to improve a patient’s vision—the ultimate goal is perfect 20/20 eyesight.

Though a newer technique than LASIK, LASEK is already reducing the incidents of post-operative complications due to the fact that there isn’t an internal flap created.

Though this is a fairly recent innovation in the world of vision correction, the Carter Eye Center is rapidly making advances in this arena, and any residents in the Dallas, Texas area looking to improve their vision should contact Dr. Harvey Carter and his team at Carter Eye Center for a consultation today.

Approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2005, Visian ICL™ is another corrective procedure that may be perfect for someone who is searching for a better option to cumbersome eyeglasses and time-consuming, uncomfortable contact lenses. The Carter Eye Center in Dallas, Texas is a great resource for getting more information about this cutting-edge, life-changing procedure.

What is the Visian ICL™?
The company Visian is a maker of the ICL, the Implantable Collamer Lens. The ICL is a lens that, after it is implanted through surgery, can permanently correct nearsightedness (myopia) and many other visual problems that millions live with. It looks just like a contact lens and works on the same principles, only the Visian ICL is surgically inserted between the iris and the cornea.

From beginning to end, the ICL procedure takes less than ten minutes. At Carter Eye Center, our team works both effectively and efficiently when it comes to ICL. Once healed, the ICL lens will stay in place permanently. Also, this procedure doesn’t cause any pain, because the eye can’t feel the intrusiveness of the procedure or the lens once it is in place.

Many former contact lens wearers who have undergone ICL enjoy many benefits, but one of the biggest is that they feel they enjoy all of the benefits of contact lenses yet don’t deal with any of the annoyances of contact lenses.

Like contacts, the Visian ICL™ slightly alters the direction that light enters the eye, improving the focus and eliminating the blurriness you used to experience every day. If you live in the Dallas, Texas area, it would be a good idea to contact Dr. Harvey Carter, a leader in this procedure.