Carter Eye Lasik Vision Correction Blog

Medical tourism is a term that has become better known over the last decade. You may have heard about it in terms of women going to Mexico for breast implants or to other locations for cancer treatment.

Where many Americans may be visiting other countries for some medical procedures, many foreign nationals are coming to the US for LASIK procedures. The US offers the greatest concentration of experienced eye surgeons in one country, and many individuals choose to combine a one-day procedure with tourism in celebration of their 20/20 eyesight.

Dr. Harvey Carter sees patients from all over the world for LASIK and alternative laser eye surgery procedures. With the nature of laser eye surgery creating immediate results, patients usually need only one day for recovery, and are able to use the remainder of their time in the US performing whatever relaxing activities they choose.

If you are interested in LASIK tourism, Carter Eye Center can provide you with recommendations on:

• Accommodation
• Sight seeing
• Transportation
• Activities
• Recovery

To learn about LASIK tourism to the US and Dallas, Texas, please contact Dr. Harvey Carter at Carter Eye Center today, and change the way you see the world.

Surgical vision correction was visualized as early as the 1930's but did not get a kick start until the 1940's when it was studied by Japanese ophthalmologists. The first successful vision correction surgeries were performed in the former USSR by Dr. Slava Fyodorov. But early vision surgery was performed with traditional surgical tools and produced vision which, though improved, tended to fluctuate from day to day.

Corrective vision surgery came to the US in 1978, and was performed in Fyodorov's style. But in 1980, application of the excimer laser, originally created to assist in making computer chips, was expanded for surgical use. Excimer lasers, like those used for modern LASIK, are considered a "cool" laser which produces no heat. The laser beams created by excimer lasers are invisible to the human eye but are able to incises tissue at a microscopic level.

Excimer lasers eventually led to the invention of Wavefront technology, the most precise form of laser eye surgery available today. Wavefront and CustomVue lasers are so precise that they allow eye surgeons to produce predictable, stable results, unlike the original eye surgeries of the 1960’s. Though LASIK history has taken several turns, the modern result is a procedure that can correct most types of vision problems in a painless procedure which yields virtually instantaneous results.

Please contact Carter Eye Center today to learn more about the history of LASIK and how we are helping Dallas, Texas, see clearly without the aid of contacts or eyeglasses.