Speaking on the advantages and efficiency of lasik surgery Dr Bharti Kashyap, Medical Director, Kashyap Memorial Eye Hospital, Ranchi said that this type of surgery is cheapest, painless, the safest and most predictable to improve vision. Dr Kashyap was addressing a gathering of noted ophthalmologists at a special discussion on the efficiency of the lasik surgery in a mid-term conference on Cornea held at Patna on May 31. The event was organised jointly by the Bihar and Jharkhand Ophthalmic Society.
“If you want to throw away your glasses and contact lenses, lasik, which uses a laser to reshape the cornea and correct visual problems, is the safest. This type of surgery is very safe for people particularly below 40 years of age for myopia (nearsighted, short-sighted) correction up to 12diopters and hyperopia (farsighted, longsighted) correction up to 6diopters and cylinder power correction up to 6diopters,” Dr Kashyap said.
She pointed out that for patients, lasik surgery has no side effects and is quite economical, costing around Rs35,000 to Rs40,000 for surgical interventions for both the eyes. She further informed that a number of job aspirants, often declared medically unfit on account of various eye ailments, can get their visual problems corrected without having to wear either contact lenses or eye glasses.
As compared to ICl surgery, it has no complications regarding development of cataract and corneal endothelial damage. In many situations where ICl cannot be done like bigger size of dark adated pupil, narrower angle, shallow anterior chamber depth, lasik is the best choice.
For high plus or minus power with astigmatism in age group below 40, Bioptics is performed that is ICl with lasik. For high plus or minus power with astigmatism in age group above 40, Bioptics is performed that is Multi-Focal IOls with lasik. Earlier inaugurating the one-day conference, Chanchal Kumar, Secretary to Bihar Chief Minister, stressed that both the ophthalmic societies of Jharkhand and Bihar would need to work closely and join hands to eradicate blindness.
The Conference was divided into four scientific sessions. Dr BP Kashyap of Kashyap Memorial Eye Hospital, Ranchi, presided over a session on Corneal Infections- Diagnosis, Investigations and Treatment in which Dr Siddharth Kumar, Dr M Shiraj Ali, Dr Shivendu Sahay, Dr SK Singh, Dr Ravi Ranjan, Dr Zahid Ali Siddiqui presented their papers.
In the second session based on Surgical Interventions of Corneal Infections, presentations were made by Dr Rungta, Dr B N Gupta and Dr Rajesh Sinha. Dr Prashant Garg, from lVPEI Hyderabad spoke on the problems faced by doctors in treatment of corneal ulcers whilst Dr Samar Basak from Disha Eye Hospital, Kolkata discussed Boston Kearatoprotheses Type-1. In the the third session Dr BP Kashyap and Dr SamarBasak spoke on Eye Banking and Corneal Transplant Surgery.