WHAT IS AN EXCIMER LASER AND HOW DOES IT WORK TO REDUCE MYOPIA (NEARSIGHTEDNESS)?
The excimer laser produces a high energy ultraviolet laser light beam. This laser is able to break the molecules in the tissue cells of the cornea. The laser is so precise that it can remove tissue 1/4 of a micron a time (one micron is one twenty-five thousandths of an inch). This precisely vaporizes and remove microscopic layers of tissue to reshape the corneal surface.
