Laser Eye Surgery Consultations in Halifax

LASIK eye surgery is by and large the most common laser eye surgery performed. During this procedure, an ophthalmologist makes an incision using either a sharp scalpel or a laser on the lens of your eye, creating a flap. Folding this flap over then gives your ophthalmologist access to your cornea, where they use an excimer laser to reshape your cornea. Reshaping cornea mitigates the refractive error of your eye, giving you clearer vision.

Once it is reshaped, the flap is folded back over the cornea. The flap will heal over a couple of days, and by the end you should be experiencing significantly better vision.

LASEK eye surgery mixes properties of both LASIK and PRK to manage your refractive errors. LASEK makes an ultra-thin flap out of the outermost layer of your lens, known as the corneal epithelium. This flap is pushed off to the side to allow an excimer laser to reshape the cornea.

PRK still employs the use of an excimer laser on the cornea, but instead of creating a flap like in LASIK and LASEK eye surgeries, your ophthalmologist completely removes the corneal epithelium of your eye. The cornea is then reshaped, and your eye will be left to heal over a couple of days.

Refractive lens exchange (RLE) is a procedure that replaces your natural crystalline lens with an artificial intraocular lens (IOL). An ophthalmologist makes a small incision in the lens of your eye before removing the crystalline lens with an ultrasound. The lens is then replaced with an IOL matched to your needs.