Eyes are the beautiful gift that god has given us as it enables a human to feel and see the colours of life. As this gift is precious, in the same way this gift is quite sensitive too. The human eyes are full of various kinds of compounds and eye components that in collaboration facilitates a human to see the variations in colours and also allows you to differ in the day and night time.
Some of the humans by birth or in further age of their lives acquires eye problems that is very common in the ongoing world and that is the myopia, hypermetropia and presbyopia.
What are these diseases?
Basically, when a human is not able to the distant object then the person is facing the problem of myopia; when the person is unable to see the nearest object, the person is suffering from hypermetropia and when the person is unable to identify any of the nearest or far object, the person is suffering from presbyopia.
To find the solutions of these kind of diseases, people also go for the option of SMILE.
What is SMILE?
SMILE stands for small incision lenticule extraction and having affinity to it LASIK stands for Laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis and these both are the form of eye laser operations that are performed to provide normal eye vision.
What is the difference between SMILE and LASIK?
In the ongoing world, the technologies have shown a modern outlook that presents tremendous achievements of a human towards the fruitful future and amongst those achievements the scientific achievement that has slammed the wall of demarcation and introduced a form of surgery, which doesn’t take much time but always render the best long-lasting effects.
And one of those form of surgery is the eye surgery that not only provides a great result but also provide relief from the burden of spectacles.
There is no as such big difference between the LASIK and SMILE only few key features differ. However, there are few differences that are enlisted here-
- SMILE is mainly used for treating the patients of myopia no other diseases.
- The entire procedure of SMILE takes about 20 to 30 minutes.
- In SMILE, minimum changes are done in the cornea that reduces the recovery time.
So, these are the simple key features of SMILE and you can already see that this doesn’t differ from LASIK more.