Are You Candidate For Lasik?

• Do your glasses or contact lenses interfere with your hobbies, sports activities, or your job?
• Do you want to see the clock when you wake-up?
• Do you want to enjoy swimming and the beach with total visual freedom?
• Do your friends complain of not being noticed by you at the beach?
• Do you want to get rid of problems related to your glasses such as the dent on your nose, fogging on cold days, getting wet on rainy days?
• Do your eyes feel dry and tired with contact lenses?
• Do you feel an urge to remove your contact lenses after a few hours of wear?
• Are you tired of contact lens care?
• Are you worried about the infection risks of contacts?
• In case of emergencies such as fire, earthquake and break-ins will you be in need of searching for your glasses or contact lenses?
• Do you want to feel independent, self-sufficient and free?
• Do you want to stop paying again and again for glasses or contact lenses?

• Patients with signs of keratoconus or abnormal corneal topography.
• Patients with history of Herpes Simplex or Herpes Zoster keratitis.
• Patients with significant dry eye that is unresponsive to treatment, or with severe allergies.
• Patients with thin corneas (at least 250 µm residual stromal bed thickness were needed at the completion of ablation to avoid post-operative  corneal ectasia).
• Patients with glaucoma especially with previous filtering surgeries.
• Patients with diabetic retinopathy requiring laser photocoagulation, or with any retinal disorder that affects the post-operative visual outcome e.g. retinitis pigmentosa.
• Previous ocular surgeries … refractive, cataract extraction, retinal surgeries, …etc.
• Lactating  or  pregnant  females.
• Medications  that  influence  the  healing  process  of  the  cornea  such  as  steroids   and  oral  contraceptive  pills.

• Pregnant women.
• People with unhealthy corneas, people with keratoconus.
• People with cataracts.
• People taking drugs that might effect cornea or that may cause dry eyes: Accutane(isoretinoin) or Cordarone (amiodarone).
• People having unstable refractions (more than 0.5 diopter change during the previous year).
• People having active collagen disorders or autoimmunological disorders such as  AIDS, lupus etc.
• People having psychiatric or psychological problem.