Modern femtosecond laser platforms are revolutionizing in recent years the surgery that corrects myopia, hyperopia and/or astigmatism. It is an advanced laser that allows the carving of the corneal flap with greater precision, completely discarding the use of the blade or mechanical microkeratome. Dr. Tañá, specialist in Ophthalmology at Top Doctors, offers all the keys.
In recent years, different techniques have been developed for myopia, hyperopia and/or astigmatism surgery with the aim of improving results, reducing complications and increasing safety during the operation. Of all of them, Lasik is the best known technique and the one that is currently used in most ophthalmological centers. However, one of the most important advances for this procedure is the emergence of the femtosecond laser (FemtoLasik technique) for 100% laser surgery.
According to major international scientific studies, a significant number of the complications that occur during Lasik refractive surgery occur when the initial cut that separates a thin layer of the cornea or flap is made with a blade for subsequent laser treatment. However, thanks to our technology, the cutting of the cornea is performed with a laser and not with a blade, and therefore the procedure is safer.
Process of the Lasik technique
The Lasik Technique always consists of two phases. In the first part of the surgical procedure, the surgeon must lift a thin layer of corneal tissue by mechanical or Femtosecond laser cutting. In a second stage, the corneal curvature is shaped in an amount that depends on the patient’s previous prescription, using an excimer laser.
It is therefore important that the patient is well informed and understands that not all Lasik surgeries are the same. In this sense, we do work with a 100% laser technique, making this surgery the most precise and least invasive. This technological advance has meant, therefore, a huge qualitative leap in terms of achieving not only greater precision, but also greater safety, which is essential when operating on healthy young patients, who only intend to improve their quality of life without glasses, but without previous diseases that require surgery.
Advantages of 100% laser surgery
Painless surgery and quick recovery in which the patient goes home on his own feet the same day of the intervention.
This technological and human team can only be found in advanced ophthalmology centers, such as Oftalvist, where they have worldwide reference techniques in ocular medicine and experienced professionals in constant training, with more than 420,000 patients treated to date in its more than 25 clinics. In addition, the group is responsible for the ophthalmological service of several large hospitals throughout Spain where they are integrated to perform surgical techniques with the maximum guarantee, seeking excellence not only in the results, but also in the treatment and seeking the welfare of the patient. In the capital city of Alicante, Oftalvist is in charge of the medical-surgical ocular service of the Vistahermosa Clinic of the HLA Hospital Group.
Committed to scientific advances
The ophthalmologists who are part of Oftalvist also have a deep scientific and teaching vocation, proof of this is the active participation as speakers at important national congresses such as the Spanish Society of Ophthalmology (SEO) or SECOIR, and international as the ASCRS (USA) or ESCRS (European), where they contribute works, publications and scientific research of high impact, especially related to the revolution that the femtosecond laser has meant in the field of corneal and crystalline lens surgery, or multifocal lenses for eyestrain, in addition to being Professors at the European University of Madrid.