No Touch Laser Eye Surgery

No-Touch Laser Eye surgery can apply to patients aged 18 years and older with suitable eye structure under normal conditions.

Absolutely LASIK! LASIK Eye Surgery is the right choice for the comfort of the patient. Especially No-Touch T-PRK, is the last choice for patients whose eyes are not suitable for LASIK surgery. In the No-Touch method, the patient spends 4 days with severe pain, stinging and burning sensation. Vision improves slowly after 1 week and it may take 3 months to achieve a good vision. The patient may not be able to continue his normal life for 1 week. Therefore, LASIK is the most accurate and reliable laser surgery method for the comfort of the patient.

Medically, No-Touch can be eligible for patients with corneas below the medical limits or who have had previous retinal detachment surgery and patients with glaucoma or patients with special conditions.

No Touch Laser Eye Surgery

Especially, patients spends 2-3 days with moderate stinging and burning sensations. Vision improves within 1 week and it may take 3 months to achieve a good vision. Therefore it can be preferred with the decision of your doctor in patients whose corneas are below the legal limits, who have undergone retinal detachment surgery and have glaucoma, or in patients with special health conditions. As as result of this surgery, patients cannot go to work for 2-3 days and cannot drive. They cannot wash face for up to 1 week. For 2 weeks after the operation, you are not do make-up or enter the pool and do any sweaty sports activity.

If you are struggling with the ongoing cost of glasses and/or contact lenses, simply find them to be an inconvenience, or they are affecting your eye health, opting for laser eye surgery could be a great alternative. Around 85% of adults are now suitable for a vision correction surgery procedure. By booking in for a free consultation, we can perform a range of comprehensive tests to assess your suitability for treatment.

Especially for pregnant or breastfeeding mothers are need to wait to be eligible for treatment as hormonal changes could affect your eyesight. You can consider having laser eye surgery three months after you stop breastfeeding or if you are not breastfeeding, three months after you give birth.

With all laser eye surgery procedures, surgery will be perform on a single eye at a time. Both eyes usually treats on the same surgery.

Laser eye surgery is a highly effective treatment, with both LASIK and LASEK laser eye surgery having very high success rates. we treat, 98.8% achieved 20/20 vision or better following surgery.

Laser Eye Surgery

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.

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.

PRK 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.

No Touch 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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