About LASIK Surgery
Chances are, you have heard people mention LASIK eye surgery interchangeably with laser eye surgery. But these are actually two different terms.
LASIK is not a synonym for "laser eye surgery" — it is just one type of laser eye surgery. And at the moment, it happens to be the most popular type of eye surgery!
Here's how the FDA defines it: "LASIK is a surgical procedure intended to reduce a person's dependency on glasses or contact lenses." LASIK is actually an acronym (which is why it's usually capitalized) that stands for Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis.
This is a medical way of saying that LASIK is a type of laser eye surgery that reshapes the cornea to improve the patient's vision. This latter definition of LASIK is one that you will see throughout this website, for the sake of simplicity and consistency.
Questions About LASIK
How do doctors use a laser to reshape the cornea? What is the typical recovery time for a LASIK surgery? How do you know if you're a candidate for such a procedure? These are just a few of the questions we seek to answer on this website.
Use the navigation menu to the left to learn more about laser eye surgery in general and LASIK in particular.