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PRK (Photorefractive Keratectomy) Cost & Profile
- Avg. Cost: $1800
- Candidate: Nearsightedness
- Length: Few minutes
- Treatments: One
- Results: Long lasting
- Back to work: 3-5 days
Common Questions & Answers about PRK (Photorefractive Keratectomy)
"Has anyone heard of LASEK? I had this procedure done March of this year. I was wearing -7's (contacts) in both my eyes and standard LASIK was not a good option for me. I had very thin corneas. Dr. Yee of Herman Eye Center is performing LASEK on patients with thin corneas and it is virtually painless - at least in my case. He makes a flap out of your epithelium which is a lot safer and painless like I said. Even his patients that are candidates for standard LASIK are choosing to do LASEK because of the low risk of injury to your corneal tisssue. He is currently co-authoring with other doctors over seas about this procedure and to my knowledge is the only doctor in Houston and possibly the US performing this procedure. I am six months out and seeing 20/15. It is wonderful."
Latest PRK (Photorefractive Keratectomy) Doctors
 | PRK (Photorefractive Keratectomy) Newark, Ohio Shahin Shahinfar, MD |
 | PRK (Photorefractive Keratectomy) Anderson, South Carolina John Wilmeth, M.D. |
 | PRK (Photorefractive Keratectomy) Ontario, California Laser Eye Center, |
| PRK (Photorefractive Keratectomy) Newport Beach, California Laser Eye Center, |
| PRK (Photorefractive Keratectomy) Thousand Oaks, California Laser Eye Center, |
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LASIK Joins the Military
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For the past four years, Army officials at Fort Bragg, NC have dedicated themselves to the continuous improvement of the military's vision. They have been performing eye surgery, such as LASIK and PRK, on qualified soldiers. For about 10,000 to 12,000 combatants a year, keeping track of glasses, prescription goggles and contact lenses on the battlefield could be a thing of the past. The vision improvement that eye surgery offers can help soldiers who have to react quickly during battle and negates the risk of liability for spectacled soldiers who loose their glasses during combat.
Eye surgery for Soldiers
Civilians continue to choose the LASIK procedure for refractive vision correction about 90% of the time, but for many active duty soldiers, PRK is the more logical choice. Because PRK is preformed on the surface of the eye, there is no flap cut from the cornea that needs to heal back over the eye as there is in LASIK. For soldiers who put their eyes under pressure from physical strain or jumping from high altitudes, not having to worry about complications from damage to the healing flap is an added bonus.
Either surgery costs the Army about $1,000 per patient, much lower than the approximately $1,700 per eye average paid by the civilian shopper, and could potentially benefit about one-third of the Army's employees. Priority for surgery is determined on a case-by-case basis, but soldiers who will be involved in combat are usually favored.
LASIK in the Air Force
In 2001 the Air Force initiated its own refractive surgery program, offering PRK to eligible airmen. In 2003 they began offering LASIK as an option, however, for aviators and individuals whose duties are performed in flight, LASIK is not available as flap complications could hinder performance.
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