A Description of Laser Eye Surgery Development - By: AdamDouglas

Laser eye surgery is one of the most valuable medical developments of our lifetime. It eliminates the need for glasses and contacts. However, few knows that laser eye surgery has a long history, which can be traced back to the 1890s when the basic principles of keratotomy (corneal incisions) to correct refractive error were explained and in the early 1930s, a Japanese doctor did some pioneering work with corneal incisions, but the work was not very successful so that many patients experienced from corneal decompensation later on in life.

Meeting with so many difficulties, researches never give up. They continue to research the potential medical procedure. Finally, with techniques and understanding of laser eye surgery improved in the later decades, a Russian eye surgeon Dr Fyodorov in the early 1970s successfully used the technique of radial keratotomy. Shaving off the front layer of the eye, he improved the vision of a boy who was involved in an accident with his eye severely damaged. Since then, he caught the attention of ophthalmic surgeons worldwide.

However, eye surgery did not widely spread then even after Dr Fyodorov had published the incident and many papered concerned. It didn't become a common procedure until two American scientists went to Russia to find out more about the discovery and turned the eye surgery dream into a reality. Since then the eye surgery is considered a medical procedure which drawn up more and more attention. The first pioneering surgery was performed in 1989 in Greece.

Tools used at the very beginning were coarse, making the procedure both dangerous and inaccurate. It was the introduction of laser technologies that increases the success rate of eye surgery. Because of the delicate nature of an eye, the operation needs to be performed with great care and delicate tools. The technology and development of laser eye surgery makes eye surgeries widely spread around the globe.

Up to now, laser eye surgery has been performed for nearly two decades. Today the surgery bears a 95% success rate with more people enjoying full 20/20 vision and most patients having undergone such a surgery report little discomfort, which boasts more and more people to have a try because of the high safety and success rates.

With laser eye surgeries, quality of people's lives is greatly enhanced and evaluated. The good news is that there are more and more professional laser eye surgeon are trained which further guarantees the great popularity of laser eye surgery all over the world.

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