Without a doubt, every patient and eye surgeon would want to achieve the desired visual correction in the first refractive surgery procedure. Surgeons usually perform a complete preoperative examination to determine whether the patient is a viable candidate for surgery and to predict the results of refractive surgery. But, unfortunately, it is difficult to accurately predict the results in the case of higher refractive errors. Things that went wrong during the preoperative exam or during the surgery itself may require enhancement surgery.
On certain occasions, the patient could do without surgery. Minor undercorrection and overcorrection can be treated using a technique called CLAPIKS (Contact Lens Assisted Pharmacological Induced Kerate Enhancement), which uses rigid gas permeable contact lenses (RGP) to reshape the cornea and eye drops to make make the cornea more malleable. However, other major problems can usually require surgery.
Even if your ophthalmic surgeon gives you the slightest hint of the requirement for surgery, it is recommended that you do not hastily demand a new enhancement treatment. You must wait for your eyes to stabilize at a fixed refraction before deciding on enhancement. Most improvements are made between 3 and 6 months after the first eye surgery. This is because it is common for the eye to regress to a fixed refractive error and no improvement should be made until the regression has been resolved.
A hyperopic patient is more difficult to predictably correct by surgery compared to a myopic patient. And therefore a hyperopic patent is more likely to require surgery. If your initial eye surgery was LASIK or IntraLASIK, the surgeon would normally lift the existing flap and cut the corneal surface at the original flap location. Although the LASIK flap attaches to the stroma, it can still be lifted, thus realizing the need to create a new flap.
With advances in laser technology and an increase in the experience of eye surgeons, the cases of enhancement have decreased significantly. However, some cases that require surgery can still occur.
Treating poor eyesight can be difficult, time consuming, painful, and ultimately annoying. If you’ve tried and failed to improve your eyesight, or have concerns about the safety of invasive eye surgery, you may want to consider other methods to make you look better and feel more confident.
You may want to consider medical and cosmetic cosmetics.
What is medical cosmetics?
It’s probably easier to start with what Medical Cosmetics is not. They are not beauty treatments administered by estheticians and it is not Cosmetic Surgery. They are non-invasive medical procedures, performed by qualified medical professionals, such as doctors, nurses, or dentists, that change and improve people’s appearance. The best known products and treatments are Botox, dermal fillers and peels.
Medical cosmetics can remove facial lines, enhance lips and cheeks, rejuvenate the chest, hands, and feet, reshape the nose, and treat acne and excessive sweating.
How does the treatment work?
Over time, our skin wrinkles in the areas where we use our facial muscles the most: if you frown a lot, you develop lines between the eyebrows, if you raise your eyebrows a lot, you develop lines on your forehead.
The treatment temporarily inactivates the muscles, giving you time to break the habit of using them repeatedly and giving your skin time to recover.
The treatment only lasts about 15 minutes and consists of a few small injections in the area to be treated.
In two weeks, the wrinkles that you were so used to seeing in the mirror will have started to fade or disappear completely.
During the first few years, frequent treatments (three months) are required to “re-educate” the facial muscles. Thereafter, treatments are less frequent until an annual maintenance treatment is usually all that is required.
