Hello, I'm Kim Sunyoung, CEO of Healing Eye Clinic.
Many people seem to read this article after thinking about which Korean ophthalmologist to go before getting LASIK & LASEK.
As an incumbent expert, I will think about it myself and tell you three criteria for choosing a Korean ophthalmologist.
▶ First, check out the hospital director's case of surgery.
I told you first as the most important criterion, but I think you might have felt that it was a little obvious because it was too obvious.
LASIK & LASEK surgery is not a difficult operation from the perspective of a specialist.
It's a very easy operation compared to cataracts and other surgeries, but low difficulty does not mean that anyone can do it easily.
Because the most important thing for LASIK & LASEK is 'preoperative design'.
Careful design such as where to center and how many diopters to cut before starting can prevent bad results such as low calibration, and minimize the possibility of side effects.
Apart from the difficulty of surgery, the design can vary depending on the many experiences the specialist has accumulated and the know-how,
Please check the professionalism of the doctor in charge who will conduct your vision correction, that is, whether you have a lot of experience and proceed.
▶ The second important point is the equipment.
There is no retreat in the equipment.
As time goes by, there are many better and more sophisticated machines.
For example, one of the things we have is an eye correction device called the Amaris Red, which is state-of-the-art with the ability to irradiate lasers much faster and more sophisticated than other existing equipment.
To give you another example of technological advancement, in the past, if a laser touched a relatively large area when it touched the cornea, recently, equipment that could accurately treat a narrow area has been released.
In addition, the existing method is to irradiate a laser using high-intensity energy, but in the case of the aforementioned amaris red, only 80% of the high-intensity energy is used, and the remaining 20% is a low-intensity energy laser to smooth the surface of the eye.
In other words, after a sharpening operation with a high-intensity laser, the surface is trimmed with the remaining 20% of the low-intensity laser.
To paraphrase it as a haircut, if you cut it big around the length you want at first, you're going to do it in the same order that you're going to trim the parts carefully at the end.
The reason why I'm telling you so much about the advantages of the latest equipment is to tell you that no matter how good the equipment is, there is bound to be a limit to the progress of surgery.
▶ Finally, optometrist's technology and equipment.
It is safe to say that the results of LASIK & LASEK depend on optometry.
Even if the best medical team uses state-of-the-art equipment to perform LASIK & LASEK, if the test results are wrong in the first place and there is a slight error of one diopter,
Afterwards, astigmatism may appear, and as a result, there is a possibility that vision may be low-corrected by 0.1-0.2.
Since eye examination is a very important issue, eye examination may vary depending on the patient's eye condition and condition.
However, since controlling these factors is also the know-how and skills of optometrists, I would like to say that it is really important for competent optometrists to proceed themselves.
Likewise, eye examination equipment should be considered an essential element.
To be honest, LASIK & LASEK doesn't have a problem at all even if they only undergo a "refractive test" with ARK equipment.
However, the biggest problem that can occur when proceeding like this is that astigmatism-related errors can occur.
Therefore, in order to reduce the possibility of astigmatism as much as possible after vision is corrected by LASIK & LASEK treatment, it is necessary to accurately set the astigmatism value during the examination.
However, no machine has yet been found that can accurately set astigmatism values 100 percent with the latest equipment.
Therefore, I would like to say that increasing accuracy using a variety of machines that can measure astigmatism is the best choice for medical staff at this time.
There was no abnormality at all before the surgery, but it would be really sad if astigmatism occurred afterwards and symptoms such as out of focus or light spreading appear.
The reason why we are investing heavily in expensive equipment is to minimize the possibility of these side effects.
So far, for those of you who are considering choosing a hospital for Lasiklasek, I have explained three important things to consider first.
I know that the reason why we are so careful about Korean hospitals is that our eyes are so precious that they want to go to a reliable hospital.
If you visit a Korean ophthalmologist that meets the three criteria mentioned earlier, I think you will be able to proceed with the surgery without worrying about side effects.
- Location -
Address
HEALINGEY ECLINIC
470, Gangnam-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Visiting hours
Weekdays: 10:00~18:30/Saturdays: 10:00~16:00
Sundays: a regular holiday
Hello, I'm Kim Sunyoung, CEO of Healing Eye Clinic.
Many people seem to read this article after thinking about which Korean ophthalmologist to go before getting LASIK & LASEK.
As an incumbent expert, I will think about it myself and tell you three criteria for choosing a Korean ophthalmologist.
▶ First, check out the hospital director's case of surgery.
I told you first as the most important criterion, but I think you might have felt that it was a little obvious because it was too obvious.
LASIK & LASEK surgery is not a difficult operation from the perspective of a specialist.
It's a very easy operation compared to cataracts and other surgeries, but low difficulty does not mean that anyone can do it easily.
Because the most important thing for LASIK & LASEK is 'preoperative design'.
Careful design such as where to center and how many diopters to cut before starting can prevent bad results such as low calibration, and minimize the possibility of side effects.
Apart from the difficulty of surgery, the design can vary depending on the many experiences the specialist has accumulated and the know-how,
Please check the professionalism of the doctor in charge who will conduct your vision correction, that is, whether you have a lot of experience and proceed.
▶ The second important point is the equipment.
There is no retreat in the equipment.
As time goes by, there are many better and more sophisticated machines.
For example, one of the things we have is an eye correction device called the Amaris Red, which is state-of-the-art with the ability to irradiate lasers much faster and more sophisticated than other existing equipment.
To give you another example of technological advancement, in the past, if a laser touched a relatively large area when it touched the cornea, recently, equipment that could accurately treat a narrow area has been released.
In addition, the existing method is to irradiate a laser using high-intensity energy, but in the case of the aforementioned amaris red, only 80% of the high-intensity energy is used, and the remaining 20% is a low-intensity energy laser to smooth the surface of the eye.
In other words, after a sharpening operation with a high-intensity laser, the surface is trimmed with the remaining 20% of the low-intensity laser.
To paraphrase it as a haircut, if you cut it big around the length you want at first, you're going to do it in the same order that you're going to trim the parts carefully at the end.
The reason why I'm telling you so much about the advantages of the latest equipment is to tell you that no matter how good the equipment is, there is bound to be a limit to the progress of surgery.
▶ Finally, optometrist's technology and equipment.
It is safe to say that the results of LASIK & LASEK depend on optometry.
Even if the best medical team uses state-of-the-art equipment to perform LASIK & LASEK, if the test results are wrong in the first place and there is a slight error of one diopter,
Afterwards, astigmatism may appear, and as a result, there is a possibility that vision may be low-corrected by 0.1-0.2.
Since eye examination is a very important issue, eye examination may vary depending on the patient's eye condition and condition.
However, since controlling these factors is also the know-how and skills of optometrists, I would like to say that it is really important for competent optometrists to proceed themselves.
Likewise, eye examination equipment should be considered an essential element.
To be honest, LASIK & LASEK doesn't have a problem at all even if they only undergo a "refractive test" with ARK equipment.
However, the biggest problem that can occur when proceeding like this is that astigmatism-related errors can occur.
Therefore, in order to reduce the possibility of astigmatism as much as possible after vision is corrected by LASIK & LASEK treatment, it is necessary to accurately set the astigmatism value during the examination.
However, no machine has yet been found that can accurately set astigmatism values 100 percent with the latest equipment.
Therefore, I would like to say that increasing accuracy using a variety of machines that can measure astigmatism is the best choice for medical staff at this time.
There was no abnormality at all before the surgery, but it would be really sad if astigmatism occurred afterwards and symptoms such as out of focus or light spreading appear.
The reason why we are investing heavily in expensive equipment is to minimize the possibility of these side effects.
So far, for those of you who are considering choosing a hospital for Lasiklasek, I have explained three important things to consider first.
I know that the reason why we are so careful about Korean hospitals is that our eyes are so precious that they want to go to a reliable hospital.
If you visit a Korean ophthalmologist that meets the three criteria mentioned earlier, I think you will be able to proceed with the surgery without worrying about side effects.
- Location -
Address
HEALINGEY ECLINIC
470, Gangnam-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Visiting hours
Weekdays: 10:00~18:30/Saturdays: 10:00~16:00
Sundays: a regular holiday