Eye surgery is not as easy as ophthalmologists want us to believe. In the first place, we believe our eyes as extremely sensitive. And we aren’t wrong. Surprises may occur unexpectedly, that one really has to be very careful what doctor they select to have them cured.

PRK basically means photo-refractive keratectomy. The procedure implies the ablation of a small fraction from the cornea, resulting in reshaping it. In this way vision defects are corrected, permitting to give up the prescription glasses for a lot of people.

Lasik is working on the same principle as PRK, but the portion removed from the cornea is not the surface one, but a deeper portion. Then the upper portion of cornea is put back in place, permitting the eye to heal the wound.

The surgeries are performed with excimer lasers. All lasers for vision correction or for any variant of medical procedure must be FDA approved. This is how patients safety is secured. This is a measure the government indicate they care for the people.

Myopia and hyperopia can both be settled through either Lasik or PRK surgery. The doctors will examine each candidate individually, then indicating one operation or another. At times, they may even claim that the sufferer should not be undergoing any surgery procedure.

Faults in laser eye surgery may cost a lot, as they may impair the person who suffered the surgery irreversibly. Choosing doctors only after deeper research will diminish the risk of exposing ourselves to human errors from the medical staff.

It has been noticed by some eye surgeons that patients need less recovery days after Lasik than after PRK. However, as nobody made the hard evidence of this fact yet, all we have to say is that there are cases in which one type of surgery is better than the other. This is why we need to go for specialist advice before doing anything.