Treatment Procedures
LASER
The use of lasers has revolutionised the treatment possibilities for eye health. With lasers, procedures are highly precise with no significant variance. The advantages that wounds heal more rapidly and the time of convalescence is shortened, make the laser an ideal instrument for operative eye procedures.
LASIK (Laser in-situ Keratomileusis)
LASIK is a modern laser procedure for permanently correcting vision deficiencies. Today, it is the most frequent procedure world wide for the correction of short-sightedness up to -10 dioptre, of far-sightedness up to +4 dioptre and of corneal distortion up to 4 dioptre. In a brief out-patient treatment, the middle corneal layer is moulded with an Excimer-Laser to correct the visual deficiency.
After applying eye drops to numb the eye, a flap of the cornea is peeled back. After completion this flap will be placed over the wound and acts as a natural plaster. Now, the middle corneal layer is removed on those positions previous calculated with help of the laser. The actual time needed to laser is very short, only a few seconds, and is painless. You can see directly after this short procedure. A normal vision is usually restored on the same day of the operation, after 8 to 12 weeks, completely stable vision. For this reason, it is absolutely necessary that you attend the post operative examinations.
Since 2001, the Rendsburg Eye Clinic uses one of the newest Excimer-Lasers, with which Wavefront Lasik can be implemented. With the help of Wavefront technology all of the refractive deviations of the cornea can be registered and a computer-aided graph produced. With this database an optimal custom Lasik can be carried out.
PRK (Photorefractive keratectomy)
PRK is the predecessor to LASIK. Short-sightedness up to -6 dioptre, far-sightedness up to +3 dioptre and corneal distortion up to 3 dioptre can be treated. The external layer of the cornea, the epithelium, is removed, the central corneal tissue is then systematically processed by the Excimer Laser. The procedure is concluded, by covering the cornea with a special contact lens. This procedure is carried out on those patients, whose cornea is too thin for an Excimer Laser procedure. The eye's full function is restored within 2-4 days, after the epithelium has been regenerated. The advantage to this procedure is the ability to accurately predict results, a disadvantage is the relatively long-lasting pain that results and is treated with eye drops.
LASEK (Laser Epitheliale Keratomileusis)
LASEK is a combination of the LASIK and PRK procedures. The epithelium is detached using alcohol and rolled up. Upon completion of the laser procedure, it is then rolled back and covered with a special therapeutic contact lens. Compared to a PRK, this procedure heals faster and is less painful.
Epi-LASIK
In this procedure, the most external cell layer is separated from the underlying layers and shoved aside with a dull blade. The Excimer Laser then corrects the deficiencies on the surface of the cornea.
