Learn More about the Different Types of Eye Surgery with Our Phoenix Ophthalmologist

Eye surgery has evolved over time and today, for many patients, Phoenix eye surgery is a preferable option to using contact lenses or wearing glasses. To determine if you are a good candidate for eye surgery, and which type would benefit you, consult your local, trusted Phoenix ophthalmologists.

Eye Surgery: Categories of Procedures Offered by Our Ophthalmologist in Phoenix

Ophthalmologists in Phoenix offer a wide variety of eye surgery options to help nearsighted people improve vision without constant need for glasses. Today, eye surgery in Phoenix can also help some farsighted people, astigmatism patients and presbyopia (age-related focusing problem) patients, too. Refractive eye surgery (vision correction) procedures include:

• Photorefractive keratectomy (PRK): The earliest successful procedure for corneal reshaping (called keratomilleusis), Phoenix eye doctors still perform this effective surgery, which improves vision for properly selected patents within days.
• Lasik laser eye surgery: Offering improved vision in just a few hours, Lasik procedures involve cutting a thin flap in the cornea, which reshapes the eye. This can be a laser assisted procedure (laser assisted in-situ keratomileusis) or Epi-lasik (laser assisted sub-epithelial keratomileusis), which uses a microscopically thin flap. Often, surgery is completely done with laser tools (called ALK or automated lamellar keratoplasty) by your ophthalmology eye doctors in Phoenix. Custom lasik procedures are monitored with wavefront technology, providing objective, highly accurate measurements ensuring light enters the eye at the proper angle.
• Conductive Keratoplasty (CK): To help correct farsightedness, this eye surgery in Phoenix uses radio waves (with limited heat) to make the corneal angle steeper. Ophthalmologists make tiny adjustments at the edge of the cornea to accomplish this.
• Implantable contact lenses: This eye surgery adds a permanent contact lens (over your eye's natural lens) to improve extreme nearsightedness.
• Refractive Lens Exchange (RLE): For severe farsightedness, your MD eye doctors in Phoenix remove the natural lens, replacing (exchanging) it with a properly-shaped man-made lens. 

Contact Us Now to Learn More about Eye Surgeries

Wondering if Phoenix ophthalmologists can help your eyesight with eye surgery? Get an exam from Eye Doctors of Arizona in Phoenix. Contact us at 602-257-8280 Ext 1 (Downtown office) or choose Ext 2 (for North Phoenix).