Laser Eye Treatments

About laser eye surgery

Ever since the first excimer laser technology was developed in 1987. It has been successfully applied to suitable eyes. Today’s technology allows more successful results to be obtain. In our country the first laser eye surgeries were performed in 1992.

Which method should I choose?

In simply, it is a minimally invasive surgery designed for treating patients with refractive errors. Also, not everyone’s eye is suitable to be treated with Laser eye Surgery. Therefore you should have adequate testing before opting for the surgery. If you prove to be suitable, our eye surgeon will then check your eyes and see if you are suitable for the surgery based on the findings. Especially do not believe whether you are suitable for this surgery other than ophthalmologists.

Will your eyes deteriorate again after laser eye surgery?

The result was that most eye problems depend on variables such as age or diseases. In this regard, laser eye surgeries correct the current defects within your eye.

However, Laser Eye Surgery is generally eligible for people who are 18 years and above.

Especially Laser Eye surgery can applies to patients aged 18 years and older with suitable eye structure under normal conditions.

Myopic

People with Myopic eye problem usually have a form of cornea that curves toward the front of the eye. As a result, the light is focused in front of their retina. Therefore this is what causes them to have a blurred image.

Hypermetropic

For people with Hyperopia (Farsightedness), the cornea is flat more than it should be. Therefore light is focused behind the retina. This causes blurry vision in farsighted patients.

Astigmatism

Especially patients with astigmatism tend to develop blurred or double vision due to the abnormal shape of the cornea.

Presbyopia

Presbyopia means aging eyes. Especially with over age 40 or 45, everyone’s reading vision ability blurry as they get older. Reading glasses are need to read papers and mobile phone. Presbyopia LASIK Smart Laser treatment is applied to correct the reading vision with suitable eye structure.

In summary, for people with clear eyesight, Myopia, Hyperopia, Astigmatism and Presbyopia will be well corrected with Laser Eye Surgeries.

Keratoconus is a slowly progressive degenerative eye disease that causes the cornea to become thinner and outward cone than normal. Significant vision problems, such as vision loss, may also result. Especially you can stop this disturbing disease with Cross-Linking Surgery.  Generally patients must use prescription glasses. Furthermore for our patients who have reached a certain age older than 35 years old and whose cornea is suitable, Laser Eye Surgeries can be apply together with Cross-Linking treatment to get rid of eye defects and prescription glasses. On the other hand, Intraocular Phakic ICL lens application can be a solution for our patients who have Keratoconus. Also who cannot have Laser Eye Surgery because of thin cornea or have a very high prescription.

Excimer Laser Eye Surgeries

Laser Eye Surgery is a minimally invasive surgery used in the treatment of eye refraction errors. Although the percentage of risks are very low. Most likely other surgeries, some complications are possible. In addition, patients should do their part to minimize these risks and pay attention to some issues.

We can list the topics to be considered in order to minimize these risks as follows.

• Patient Factor
• Physician Factor
• Technology Factor
• Hospital Factor

Patient Factor

Especially wrong patient selection is the most important risk factor for eye surgeons. Wrong patient selection is valid for all eye surgeries. The age, medical history, corneal thickness, the structure of eye, and health condition is very important for Laser Eye Surgery.

Who is not suitable for Your Laser Eye Surgery?

• Certain systematic diseases.
• You should not have an active eye infection.
• During pregnancy and breastfeeding, mothers are not suitable. Patients need to wait until the end of breastfeeding period.
• Thin corneas below the limits.
• Cataract patients.
• You must not have had eye herpes.
• Severe diabetes syndromes.
• Rheumatic disease and dry eye syndrome may endanger a person’s eyes. Dry eyes must be treated before surgery.
• Genetic corneal diseases.
• Permanent retinal diseases.

Amblyopia (lazy eye)

For patients with lazy eye (amblyopia), alternative treatments are available. Besides laser surgery can improve vision capability slightly compared to prescription glasses. Laser Eye Surgery is a solution for patients who can not use wearing prescription glasses. Amblyopia is an eye condition, especially in children, where eyes are not able to focus properly.

Why avoid cheap Laser Eye Surgery?

You may think that a cheap Laser Eye Surgery is good for you. In this case, you renounce technology, physician quality, medical care and sterile conditions. Furthermore, even more importantly, you take risks.

What you should take into account to make your decision?

We highly recommend that our patients select newest excimer laser technology and screening equipments, hospitals where the environments are completely sterile, experienced eye surgeons and team. We want to remind our patients that they only have two eyes and it’s the most important and sensitive organ.

Physician Factor

Our experienced Eye Surgeons have graduated best medical schools in the world with highest rank. Such as Harvard Medical School, Viena Medical School, Cerrahpasa Medical School and Hacettepe Medical School. Our eye surgeons have successfully completed nearly 100,000 surgeries in total with 35 to 15 years of experience. At the Smart Laser Eye Centers, our patients eye condition evaluates together by all of our eye surgeons.

Especially patients should pay attention to a few factors when choosing their eye surgeon. These factors include the doctor’s experience, education, academic career, and experience with complications. The medical support team is also important. A good doctor definitely wants to work with a good medical team. If you have decided to have Laser Eye Surgery. We recommend you choose hospitals with specialist physicians and new technologies.

Technology Factor

Laser Eye Surgery is something that assures a patient of a lower risk for his health when the procedure is performed in a high-tech hospital. The personalized elegance to this surgery is mostly decided through the surgeon’s training level, academic qualification and clinical experience of various specialists working together. Certainly, every eye surgeon would want to use that latest technology as it is necessary to be acquired and used during every operation. It doesn’t matter how well they know the procedure, they would want to use that most advance technology.

Hospitals who invested in this technology should not be expected to offer cheap surgery. Hospitals are investing in these advanced technologies make this investment by thinking of their patients. Eye treatment technologies are among the branches that require much higher investment compared.

Hospital Factor

Especially in full-fledged hospitals have to apply strict rules on sterilization. These rules apply to all patients. Patients prefer to have Laser Eye Surgeries because they are more secure. Being in a full-fledged hospital is also sterile. In addition, full-fledged hospitals give patients a sense of assurance. Smart Laser Eye Centers locates in fully-fledged of multiple disciplines hospitals.

In Laser Eye Surgery, there are a number of complications that can be dealt with, though rarely. As such, it is important to choose an expert eye surgeon who often deals with eye complications.

The list of Surgery Risks and rare complications:

• Eye infections that may occur when people do not take their medication properly.
• Epithelial ingrowth.
• Flap slippage due to unconscious contact after the surgery
• “Haze” blurry eye.

These problems can be compensated with medical intervention.

Do I need to have surgery again?

There is a possibility of re-operation, especially in patients who use high prescription glasses. That’s why Sensitive Profile Patient Program available for high prescription patients.

Is Laser Eye Surgery 100% guaranteed for life?

One of the most frequently mentioned issues among patients is the increase in eye dioptries after surgery. Basically, laser eye surgery is a correction surgery. No doctor can guarantee that your eyes will not deteriorate in the future. Although doctors will only comment on your eye condition in future. Your eye is an important organ of your body and it ages with you just like your other organs. It is possible for your eyes to deteriorate again for any medical reason after this surgery. However, under normal conditions, the eye of a healthy individuals will not deteriorate.

However, if you have some cronical diseases that cause deterioration of our eyes (such as diabetes, hypertension, heart and kidney diseases, etc. ). It is important to be under strict control. Visit your eye doctor regularly. A lifetime guarantee cannot be offer to the patients in all refractive eye treatments. In case your eyes deteriorate again in the future, your doctor will try to correct your eyes with possible treatments.

What should you expect after laser eye surgery?

• Temporary flashes of light in your night vision after surgery.
• The sun is very bright during the day.
• Temporary dry eye syndrome.

In order to avoid these, you must follow the actions your doctor tells you to take.

Especially for Presbyopia patients, your doctor will give you specific advice. The duration of treatment satisfaction will vary according to the age of each patient. Patients over the age of 50 may be more satisfy with Presbyopia LASIK Smart Laser Eye Surgery. This is because their reading vision problem will progress slowly. Your doctor will definitely inform you about this. Do not forget that since everyone’s eye structure is different, no patient is exactly like another patient.

What are the important complications for No-Touch (T-PRK) or PRK Laser Eye Surgery?

Especially in this technique, A long-term laser beam or by manual surgical procedure removes the epithelial top layer of cornea. For this reason, the patient spends 3-4 days in severe pain and discomfort after the surgery.

In this technique vision capability restore back in 1 week. Accordingly for a good vision, patients needs to wait about 1-2 months. This method uses more laser beams and heat on the cornea than the LASIK technique.

In order to prevent the risk of “Haze” blurry eye complications due to thermal impact. Some medications and procedures need to applies during the surgery. However, these medications and procedures are not 100% guaranteed to eliminate the risk of “Haze”. No-Touch or PRK method is not eligible for hyperopia patients because of the risk of “Haze” depending on the condition of the eye. There is no “Haze” Risk in LASIK Laser Eye Surgery.

How can this risk be minimized?

We use the new Excimer Laser Technology “Dynamic Spot Technique” to minimize the risk of “Haze”. This is a technique which minimizes risk of thermal impact “Haze” complication. It is widely use in Smart Laser Eye Centers.

Can Laser Eye Surgery cause a permanent problem?

Especially Laser Eye Surgery will not cause permanent damage to the eyes of patients. Unless if there is any technical, medical and / or doctor’s fault. Especially in Smart Laser Eye Centers, all surgeries are recording and storing in our cloud system for training and quality assurance purposes.

Laser Eye Surgery Pricing

The procedure does to treat refractive errors more effectively. Laser Eye Surgery is usually performing on two eyes. Sometimes patients would need correction for only one eye. Therefore price can give for single eye surgeries.

We give laser eye surgery pricing as includes all on the cost.

Laser Eye Surgery outcomes include the performance of the following actions:

• Laser eye surgery eligibility checks (free of charge).
• Surgery Examination.
• 2 eye drops they use for the first month.
• Protective Glasses.

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