ALasik surgeryhas become one of the most popular eye surgeries these days. However, such Lasik surgery is done through sending laser signals underneath the cover of the cornea. So many people all over the world use it for getting their vision disorders treated. After undergoing this surgery, people no longer feel the need to sport glasses and lens.  The procedure of this surgery involves altering the outline of the cornea. The development of this surgery is quite recent and it happened somewhere around 1991.

Such Lasik eye surgery is also not useful for someone who has poor eyesight because of afflictions like diabetes. The eyes should also be healthy before such kind of surgery can be performed. It should not have eye infections because they prevent doctor to perform the surgery on the eyes apart from slowing down the postoperative recovery. The surgery does not take much time, but the patient needs to follow some guidelines for postoperative care.

The experience of the surgeon to be chosen for this process is quite crucial. This surgery does not involve any incision and is not at all painful for a person. The cornea is reshaped making use of laser. The shape of the cornea, which will be attained after the surgery, is decided before hand. The aim of such a laser surgery is to cure the imperfect match between the eye cornea and lens, which has led to vision problems involving hazy images seen by the eye.

Generally, two kinds of vision errors are treated with this operation. One of them is myopia and another is hyperopia. In the former, the patient is not able to see the objects placed far from him clearly, whereas in the latter, the victim cannot see close objects clearly. Another vision disorder called astigmatism where several images of an object are formed on the cornea can be treated through this lasik surgery .

Children, who are not eighteen years old, are not eligible for this operation. A doctor who agrees to perform this operation on a candidate who is not even 18 years old is doing something harmful to his/her eyes.