What do you really need to know before and after the Lunar New Year holiday, Smile LASIK surgery?
Jan 24, 2025
In the run-up to the Lunar New Year holiday, the number of patients who want vision correction and surgery appointments is increasing.
In particular, this year, it has been designated as an alternative holiday, so you have about a week to spare. If you have surgery at the start of the holiday, you can get back to your daily life after having enough recovery and rest. I think it will be a good opportunity to say goodbye to uncomfortable glasses and lenses forever with the vision correction surgery I wanted.
Laser vision correction surgery such as LASIK, LASEK, SMILE LASIK and SMILE PRO, which are well known, may have slightly different recovery periods depending on the method, so it is good to know before surgery.
The old method, LASIK, corrects vision by cutting the cornea close to the circle and opening it, and then cutting the inner corneal parenchyma. There is little pain and recovery is as fast as three to five days, so it is not too difficult to receive during the holiday season.
However, as the cornea is largely incised, it is vulnerable to shock or infection, so careful management is required. Compared to LASIK, LASEK is a method of laser correction after peeling off the corneal surface with drugs, and has pain and a longer recovery period. Stabilization is needed for more than one to two weeks until the peeled corneal epithelium is regenerated.
Smile LASIK and Smile Pro have the shortest recovery period among laser vision correction surgery. If you rest for about a day after surgery, you can wash your face or live a light daily life from the next day.
The reason why smile surgery is so fast to recover is that it has little damage to the surface of the cornea and is a minimal incision method. Using a femtosecond laser, it penetrates the corneal epithelium and selectively corrects it in the inner parenchyma layer. The incision size is generally about 2 to 4 mm, but in the case of this hospital, it is performed with a minimum incision of 1 mm. Compared to LASIK, which incisions about 24mm cornea, the difference is large. Since the original function and stiffness of the cornea are maintained as much as possible, this 1mm minimum incision smile surgery has the least risk of aftereffects such as corneal dilatation, corneal opacity, dry eyes, and glare.
In any way, after undergoing vision correction surgery, you need to keep your guard up and take care of your eyes carefully for the time being. It is recommended to avoid UV exposure and see as few smartphones as possible until the stabilization period. If you focus on your smartphone, you will unconsciously blink less, adding to the fatigue of your eyes. Tears have a low effect of wetting the surface of the eye, which can lead to sore or stiff eyes.
Alcohol and smoking should also be banned for the time being. Eyes can easily become bloodshot by causing unexpected inflammation or dilating blood vessels in the eyeball. In addition, it can relax the shape muscles that help the refractive power of the lens, thereby reducing the control power of the lens.
After surgery, when your eyesight recovers stably and enters a period of stability, you should relieve eye fatigue from time to time. It is good to blink often consciously and stretch your eyes in between. After gently closing your eyes and applying force, it is good to open it wide again and look up, down, left, and right alternately, or at an intersection close to a distance.
Help = Onnuri Smile An, Director Kim Ji-sun
In particular, this year, it has been designated as an alternative holiday, so you have about a week to spare. If you have surgery at the start of the holiday, you can get back to your daily life after having enough recovery and rest. I think it will be a good opportunity to say goodbye to uncomfortable glasses and lenses forever with the vision correction surgery I wanted.
Laser vision correction surgery such as LASIK, LASEK, SMILE LASIK and SMILE PRO, which are well known, may have slightly different recovery periods depending on the method, so it is good to know before surgery.
The old method, LASIK, corrects vision by cutting the cornea close to the circle and opening it, and then cutting the inner corneal parenchyma. There is little pain and recovery is as fast as three to five days, so it is not too difficult to receive during the holiday season.
However, as the cornea is largely incised, it is vulnerable to shock or infection, so careful management is required. Compared to LASIK, LASEK is a method of laser correction after peeling off the corneal surface with drugs, and has pain and a longer recovery period. Stabilization is needed for more than one to two weeks until the peeled corneal epithelium is regenerated.
Smile LASIK and Smile Pro have the shortest recovery period among laser vision correction surgery. If you rest for about a day after surgery, you can wash your face or live a light daily life from the next day.
The reason why smile surgery is so fast to recover is that it has little damage to the surface of the cornea and is a minimal incision method. Using a femtosecond laser, it penetrates the corneal epithelium and selectively corrects it in the inner parenchyma layer. The incision size is generally about 2 to 4 mm, but in the case of this hospital, it is performed with a minimum incision of 1 mm. Compared to LASIK, which incisions about 24mm cornea, the difference is large. Since the original function and stiffness of the cornea are maintained as much as possible, this 1mm minimum incision smile surgery has the least risk of aftereffects such as corneal dilatation, corneal opacity, dry eyes, and glare.
In any way, after undergoing vision correction surgery, you need to keep your guard up and take care of your eyes carefully for the time being. It is recommended to avoid UV exposure and see as few smartphones as possible until the stabilization period. If you focus on your smartphone, you will unconsciously blink less, adding to the fatigue of your eyes. Tears have a low effect of wetting the surface of the eye, which can lead to sore or stiff eyes.
Alcohol and smoking should also be banned for the time being. Eyes can easily become bloodshot by causing unexpected inflammation or dilating blood vessels in the eyeball. In addition, it can relax the shape muscles that help the refractive power of the lens, thereby reducing the control power of the lens.
After surgery, when your eyesight recovers stably and enters a period of stability, you should relieve eye fatigue from time to time. It is good to blink often consciously and stretch your eyes in between. After gently closing your eyes and applying force, it is good to open it wide again and look up, down, left, and right alternately, or at an intersection close to a distance.
Help = Onnuri Smile An, Director Kim Ji-sun
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
