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LASIK

LASIK, an acronym for Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis, is an eye surgery procedure intended to reduce a person's dependency on glasses or contact lenses.

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Public information from the official LASIK FDA site:

"LASIK is a procedure that permanently changes the shape of the cornea, the clear covering of the front of the eye, using an excimer laser. A knife, called a microkeratome, is used to cut a flap in the cornea. A hinge is left at one end of this flap. The flap is folded back revealing the stroma, the middle section of the cornea. Pulses from a computer-controlled laser vaporize a portion of the stroma and the flap is replaced."

Related articles

• Eye surgery
• Radial keratotomy
• Photorefractive keratectomy
• LASEK

External link

• http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/lasik/
• http://www.visionsimulations.com/
• http://www.surgicaleyes.org/
• http://lasikdisaster.com/

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