Filmed Tuesday May 15th, this video shows the actual PRK (Photorefractive keratectomy) procedure. In it you’ll see my eyes opened up, drops put in, clamps put in place to keep them open, and then the actual lasers firing. If this is not something you want to see I recommend either just skipping through or skipping the entire video and watching my recovery. During this process you’ll see they first operated on my right eye and then my left. The right eye went really smoothly but I guess its quite normal for the second one to give more problems and that was what happened here too. I was a little more jumpy during the left aye and while the surgery itself went fine the before sequence took a little longer. Big Thanks to Dr Isaac W. Porter of Lowry Porter Ophthalmology for letting me film this www.lowryeye.com twitter.com YouTube.com For those who are unfamiliar with PRK here is some info from wikipedia
Photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) and Laser-Assisted Sub-Epithelial Keratectomy (or Laser Epithelial Keratomileusis[1]) (LASEK) are laser eye surgery procedures intended to correct a person’s vision, reducing dependency on glasses or contact lenses. The first PRK procedure was performed in 1987 by Dr. Theo Seiler, then at the Free University Medical Center in Berlin, Germany.[2] The first LASEK procedure was performed at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in 1996 by ophthalmologist, refractive surgeon, Dimitri Azar.[3] The procedure was later popularized by Camellin, who <b>…</b>
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