Your LASIK Journey

To optimise your test results, you need to:

• Refrain from wearing soft contact lenses for at least 7 days
• Refrain from wearing hard/RGP (rigid gas permeable) contact lenses for at least 2 weeks
• Bring your contact lenses along as we need to record your contact lens power

Detailed tests will be performed during the evaluation:

• Subjective refraction: measurement of your eye power
• Corneal Topography: measurement of the shape of the front of your cornea
• Corneal Tomography: measurement of the shape of the front and back of your cornea and its thickness
• Corneal Ocular Coherence Tomography: measurement and analysis of your corneal layers
• Wavefront assessment: measurement of visual distortions of your cornea and the whole eye
• Pupil size in different lighting conditions
• Ultrasonic corneal pachymetry: measurement of corneal thickness
• Cycloplegic refraction is performed to obtain the highest level of accuracy
  
  • A special eyedrop called Cyclogyl/ Cyclopentolate is used to relax your focusing muscles
  • This takes 1 hour
  • These eyedrops cause your pupils to dilate and you will have slight blurring of vision and light sensitivity for 36-48 hours
  • We go this extra mile because your refraction is one of the most important tests in our pursuit for visual perfection for you!
• In addition, we give you a comprehensive eye check-up including a retinal examination and eye pressure measurement

For patients over 40 years of age, you may be advised to consider monovision as an option for your vision correction.

• There has to be an interval of at least 4 to 5 days between the pre-LASIK assessment and the operation
  
  • The effects of our tests results in a larger pupil which reduces the accuracy of centration during the laser treatment.
• We can operate on both eyes on the same day or separately.
  
  • For surgeries done separately, we usually perform LASIK for your second eye a week later to:
    
    • Ensures better safety
    • Better results for your second eye - the response to treatment of your first eye will determine a final adjustment of treatment to your second eye. Your second eye operation is usually on your dominant and more important eye to be treated.
  • Patients are advised not to travel for at least 5 to 6 days after each eye operation.
  • There will be a consultation the next day after the operation, 1 week later, 1 month later and if required, 3 months later.

Validity

Your assessment results are valid for 3 months. If there is a delay of up to 9 months, only a small number of tests need to be repeated.

However, if the delay is more than 1 year, you will have to repeat all the tests.