Refractive surgery

What exactly is refractive surgery?

All those surgical procedures that aim to eliminate the common and well known refractive errors (e.g. myopia, astigmatism, hyperopia) are integrated in the field of refractive surgery. Without doubt, worldwide the most popular procedures for eliminating refractive errors are laser refractive procedures.

In the past, several surgical techniques were applied against various refractive conditions, but laser technology was the real breakthrough in ophthalmology and helped millions of people get rid of their spectacles or contact lenses. The appropriate ophthalmological equipment using laser technology, offers efficiency, quality, maximum safety and accuracy in such procedures, factors that assisted not only patients, but also surgeons to believe in those procedures.