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Lasik surgery where the surgeon uses the IntraLase laser to form a protective corneal flap.

The layer of corneal tissue among the epithelium and the stroma.

Soft surface tissue that covers the front of the cornea.

The measure of refractive inaccuracy. A negative diopter assessment means an eye with myopia and positive diopter value signifies an eye with hyperopia.

The U.S. governmental agency, which assesses and approves medical devices.

A fainter second image of the thing you view.

An unnatural lens emplyed to replace the natural crystalline lens of the eye.

Colored membrane before of the eye’s lens that manipulates the dimensions of the pupil and therefore regulates the quantity of light getting into the eye.

A type of surgeries where a laser is used to restructure the cornea to correct refractive errors.

Part of the eye nears the center of the retina; the macula lets us to see objects with great detail.