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We are so proud to have Ms. Tracie Souve as Dr. Soroudi's wonderful registered nurse and surgical coordinator. Tracie has been an operating- and recovery room nurse for the past 15 years with great experience in both fields of plastic surgery and ophthalmology.
All of our patients have the luxury of meeting with Tracie prior to their upcoming procedure and have all their questions answered in detail; this has truly helped all our patient undergo surgery with utmost comfort, confidence, and in a relaxed state of mind.
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Thank you so much for helping me see 20/10 (twice better than 20/20) after having to use contacts throughout my medical school and residency years.
Dr. Moses A., M.D., Anesthesiologist
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The LASIK procedure
LASIK is one of the most well known procedures commonly performed for refractive surgery. LASIK is well popularized because it has great advantages compared to other visual correction methods. LASIK applies a relatively lack of pain after the procedure and that good vision is commonly achieved by the following day.
Once the patient is now approved to have the LASIK procedure, patients are hereby required to follow the general course of action in the days and weeks former to LASIK vision correction.
<>LASIK uses an instrument commonly known as a Micokeratome. It is used to create a thin, circular flap inside the cornea but the new and modern way of doing that is by the use of a laser. The surgeon then folds the hinged flap behind and out of the way then extracts a few corneal tissues underneath by the use of an Excimer laser. The laser uses an ultraviolet light beam to appropriately remove each bit of tissue originating from the cornea to reform it.
If the cornea is reformed the proper way, it works out better when it comes to focusing the light into the eye and into the retina; it provides clearer vision than before.