Your Surgery

Preparing For Your Laser Surgery

Please do not wear soft contact lenses three weeks before the laser surgery or hard contact lenses for one month before your surgery. This will allow the surface of your cornea to resume its normal shape.

Beginning three days before your laser surgery, use one drop of an antibiotic eye drop 4 times a day in the eye that is being corrected. Please read your consent forms and bring them with you on the day of your surgery. If you have any questions regarding your surgery please call us at 800-635-0489 and we will be happy to help. After your surgery you should expect to go home and rest quietly for the remainder of the day.

Your Laser Surgery

You will check in one-half hour prior to your scheduled surgery time. Upon arrival your consent forms will be signed and collected. You will receive your postoperative instructions for review. You will be called into an exam room to review postoperative instructions, to meet the surgeon (if you have not already done so), and to be given a mild sedative to help you relax. Any questions regarding the surgery will also be answered at this time.

When ready for surgery, the nurse will bring you to the laser surgery suite. You will remain awake and comfortable during the laser procedure. A numbing topical anesthetic drop will be put into your eye and you will be prepared for the laser treatment. The surgeon will then begin the LASIK procedure. This procedure will take approximately 10-15 minutes per eye, and you will remain lying comfortably on a reclining chair throughout the laser procedure.

When the surgery is complete, a nurse will escort you to the waiting room where you will rest for about 20 minutes. The surgeon will then examine your eyes and then you will be ready to go home. Please remember all patients need to be escorted home from the surgery. OCB will not release patients without escorts. You should plan to be at the Laser Center for 1-3 hours.