Epi-Lasik, also know as Lasek, is a refractive surgery method designed to decrease a person’s need on eyeglasses and contact lenses.

Epi-Lasik is a rather new advance to surface ablation with the excimer laser. Nearly all experts believe it an iteration of PRK. Epi-Lasik is define as surface ablation in which an effort is made to produce and save the corneal epithelium in a sheet or sheets, to be reposited on the cornea after the ablation in an effort to reduce postoperative pain and speed the return of vision.

Advantages of Epi-Lasik are:
Epi-Lasik is obviously not as at ease for the patients as Lasik, while modern bandage soft contact lenses, NSAID drops, small quantities of “comfort drops”,
and the use of narcotics have improved matters greatly for surface ablation patients.
Easier theoretically, so that even the rare refractive surgeon can do an excellent job.
There is early evidence to suggest that wave front-based clinical outcomes are even better with Epi-Lasik than with Lasik.

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