Posts Tagged microkeratome

People have refractive eye surgery (usually Lasik these days) for many reasons including lifestyle, functional, or cosmetic issues. I had Lasik and my reasons were largely due to function. Previously, I wore contact lenses, but as time passed and I grew older, my eyes became less and less tolerant of them. I remember very well the moment that I realized that contact lenses were becoming a problem for me. I was an eye surgery resident in the middle of a surgery. My eyes were bothering me from dryness and allergy, so my contact lenses were quite irritating. This problem had been increasing steadily over time so that usually by early afternoon I could no longer wear the contact lenses. In this case, while I was doing surgery, the problem became so bad that one contact lense actually popped out of an eye. Luckily, it was toward the end of the surgery and I was able to complete the case without incident using just one eye. From that time until I had Lasik, I did all my surgeries wearing glasses.