The Best Holiday Gift Ideas:
LASIK Surgery in Las Vegas

LASIK as a Gift? Is LASIK Really Worth It?

Whenever you think about investing in a gift, it’s reasonable to compare the cost and the lasting benefits. In other words: “Is LASIK worth it?”. If you’re considering giving the gift of LASIK, you only have to look to the remarkably high rate of patient satisfaction for the answer to this question.

LASIK eye surgery is the most popular elective procedure in the history of medicine. But how did the procedure become so sought after? It’s simple: LASIK is worth it. If you wear eyeglasses or contacts, you understand the daily hassle and upkeep that’s required to keep your sight clear and your eyes healthy. LASIK decreases the reliance on bothersome and tedious eyewear, enabling you to give the simple gift of better vision.

Laser eye surgery can also alleviate the lifelong expenses associated with wearing glasses and contacts. Over the years, glasses and contact expenses add up, far surpassing the one-time cost of LASIK. So, not only will LASIK improve quality of life, it can decrease costly, life-long expenditures on glasses, contacts, and the accompanying, annual appointments with your eye doctor.

How Much Does LASIK Cost in Las Vegas?

Las Vegas Laser Eye Surgery: A Gift that Can Last a Lifetime

Our LASIK surgery is designed to improve refractive errors, including hyperopia (farsightedness), myopia (nearsightedness), and astigmatism, for the long-term. This means that unless you develop eye conditions or your prescription changes over the years, the results of your surgery will last a lifetime.

At LASIK of Nevada, not only do we provide LASIK, we also offer PRK (photorefractive keratectomy). While LASIK creates a flap in the cornea in order to reshape the eye, PRK doesn’t. In PRK, some of the top layer is rubbed off before the procedure occurs and allowed to regrow after.

This is important, because not everyone will be a candidate for LASIK. If a person has a vision prescription that’s too severe, or an issue with the thickness of their corneas, for example, LASIK won’t be the best path to better vision. By offering PRK as well, we’re able to provide vision correction to more people than we would if we only offered LASIK.

Is It Safe to Give the Gift of LASIK?

You already know that providing your loved one with better vision as a holiday gift would make improve their life — but, is LASIK safe?

Since its FDA-approval in 1999, around 10 million Americans have had LASIK. The technology and surgical procedures used in LASIK have improved year after year, further increasing the safety of laser vision correction. In addition, there are approximately 7,000 (and counting) peer-reviewed studies that validate LASIK’s standing as an extremely low-risk procedure.

Plus, wearing contacts carries a higher risk than laser vision correction. Regular contact lens wearers have five times the chance to develop eye infections than those who receive LASIK. This is because inserting a foreign piece of plastic into your eye everyday can cause infections, bacterial irritation, altered corneal thickness, corneal ulcers, micro-cysts, and other complications.

The safety and effectiveness of LASIK surgery depends largely on the provider you choose. Because you’ll want to ensure that your gift delivers the best results possible, here are some things to take into consideration when looking into LASIK providers:

Recover from LASIK Surgery in Time for the New Year

There’s no better year than 2020 to finally experience clear vision, and scheduling a vision correction procedure before the end of 2019 means the chance to start the new year with 20/20 eyesight.

LASIK surgery typically only takes a few minutes per eye, while your entire visit to our office will last only a few hours. After surgery, all you have to do is have someone drive you home, follow our simple post-operative care instructions, and rest. At LASIK of Nevada, our patients are often back at work the day after their surgery.