Further Information

Refractive Errors

To see the objects clearly, rays of light pass through the eye and focus on the retina, which constitutes the back wall of the eye. Lens inside the eye is responsible for refracting the rays of light to ensure the best focus. Retina receives the vision formed by the rays of light and sends it to brain through the optic nerve.

The most important symptoms of the fracture errors are low vision, pain and discomfort in eyes. Short-sightedness (myopia and hyperopia), farsightedness (presbyopia), difference between vertical and horizontal refractivenesses of eye (astigmatism) are the names of visual impairments. While vision focuses in front of retina in myopia, it focuses behind in the back of retina and a blurred vision occurs in astigmatism due to focusing on two different points.

Laser therapy is one of the treatment methods applied in the refractive errors of eye and eliminating the dependency to contact lens. While iLASIK is the more common method, all other refractive surgical methods (WAVEFRONT LASIK-LASEK,PRK ,LASEK, Epi-LASIK, INTACS, Phakic IOL) with proven reliabilities are also being applied in our hospital.

Who cannot be applied laser?

Laser must not be applied to

→ Patients with rheumatism,

→ Diabetic patients,

→ Pregnant women,

→ Breastfeeding mothers,

→ Those who previously underwent eye surgery,

→ Keratoconus patients,

→ Patients with eye diseases such as high eye pressure and cataract.

If your Eye Structure is not convenient for Laser Therapy

Phakic IOL

It is an operation performed for those whose eye structures are not convenient for laser therapy (for example thin cornea) or highly myopic or hypermetropic eyes to have a clear vision without using glasses or lens.

During the operation, a second lens is placed into eye in front or in the back of iris, the structure that gives color to eye, without touching patient’s own eye lens. In addition to the laser operation preparations, anterior chamber depth and determination of the number of corneal cells are important for this operation.