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Finding an Eye Surgeon
Once you’ve made the decision to undergo eye surgery, the next big step is to choose who your surgeon will be. This is no small undertaking; once...
Introduction to Eye Surgery
Eye surgery, or ocular surgery, is there to help keep one of our most important senses healthy and functional. Vision problems have plagued people...
What to Expect on the Day of Surgery
Surgery can be somewhat frightening even for the bravest among us. You are only partially clothed, everywhere you look people are dressed in masks...
A Primer on Robotic Surgery
When people first hear the term robotic surgery it is hard not to imagine a robot plucked straight from a science fiction movie standing over a patient...
Understanding the Risks of Surgery
Many modern surgical procedures are both routine and safe but, it is important to remember that there is a certain amount of risk in every surgical...
Calculating the Risks and Benefits of Surgery
Before every surgical procedure, surgeons will determine a risk/benefit ratio either informally or as part of a patient workup. If the ratio is too...
Recovering from Surgery – What to Expect
Surgery recovery is the sequence of steps that occurs from the point at which you awake from anesthesia to the point at which you are fully healed...
Surgery Demographics – Security and Confidentiality
Surgery demographics are the statistics compiled about the age, gender, race and other characteristics of those undergoing surgery. Essentially surgery...
Surgery Recovery Period
The period after your surgery, called the recovery period, is a very important part of your overall surgical experience. The ease with which you...
Vitrectomy Surgery - Removing Vitreous Humor From the Eye
Rather than being a single solid sphere, the eye is actually composed of several chambers. The largest of these chambers houses the vitreous humor...
Main Types of Cataract Surgery and Costs
Cataracts are a disorder of the eye in which the lens becomes thicker over time. This thickness blocks light from passing through the lens and also...
Alphabet Soup - PRK vs. LASIK
There are several options that patients and eye surgeons have for vision correction surgery. Two of the more common procedures are PRK and LASIK....
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