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Gas permeable (GP) or hybrid contact lenses may improve the eyesight of people who have less-than-perfect results from LASIK or other refractive surgery, especially when another surgical procedure or enhancement is not possible. The smooth, rigid surface of these lenses can correct optical imperfections that eyeglasses and soft contacts can't address, making gas permeable contact lenses or hybrids the best choice if you're looking for the sharpest vision possible.

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Gas permeable (GP) or hybrid contact lenses may improve the eyesight of people who have less-than-perfect results from LASIK or other refractive surgery, especially when another surgical procedure or enhancement is not possible. The smooth, rigid surface of these lenses can correct optical imperfections that eyeglasses and soft contacts can't address, making gas permeable contact lenses or hybrids the best choice if you're looking for the sharpest vision possible.

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Eye surgery techniques have make remarkable steps forward during the last few years. Lasik eye surgery has catapulted to the forefront of corrective eye surgery procedures enjoying an
excellent success rate. Prospective patients are hungry for information, not just those seeking
vision improvements but also those wanting cosmetic eye surgery to regain some of those youthful looks.

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Eye surgery procedures, in varying forms, have become popular in recent years. However, did you know the history of laser eye surgery dates back to over 100 years. How can this be you're
probably saying. Isn't it a relatively new procedure born out of modern technology? well, yes and no.

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LASIK safe in patients with history of ocular herpes.

Patients with a history of ocular herpes can safely undergo LASIK, according to a retrospective
study by researchers in Spain. No patients experienced a reactivation of herpetic keratitis
during the follow-up period, the study authors noted. "Candidates should be selected with caution and surgery performed only in eyes in which the herpes has been inactive for 1 year before surgery, without stromal disease, and with regular topography and pachymetry maps and normal corneal sensitivity," the authors said. "The most reasonable clinical strategy is perioperative systemic antiviral prophylaxis."

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If you are seriously considering Lasik, All-Laser Lasik, PRK, LASEK, Epi-Lasik, CK, P-IOL, RLE, or any other refractive surgery technique, you need to first and foremost consider the
qualifications and experience of your potential doctor. The doctor is even more important than
the medical devices used. No amount of technology can compensate for an inferior doctor.

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In an article published in the November 2007 issue of Refractive Eyecare, prominent Canadian
refractive surgeon Raymond Stein, M.D. explains why he has used an IntraLase femtosecond (FS) laser to create the corneal flap in over 99% of his LASIK surgeries since January 2006. Dr. Stein was one of the first surgeons to perform laser vision correction surgery in North America and is currently the medical director of the Bochner Eye Institute in Toronto and chief of ophthalmology at Scarborough General Hospital in Toronto.

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