Anesthesia

Advantages of Topical Anesthesia

• Faster with greater patient comfort.
• No patient anxiety over receiving a deep injection next to the eyeball.
• Visual recovery begins immediately since the eye muscles aren’t paralyzed as with local block anesthesia.
• Eliminates potential complications such as perforation of the eye, hemorrhage or damage to the optic nerve.
• Eliminates need for an eye patch.

Advantages of No Stitch, Clear Corneal Incision

• No placement or removal of sutures.
• May be performed under local or topical anesthesia.
• Requires no patch.
• It is a bloodless incision.
• Reduces post-operative restrictions
• Improves post-operative vision and reduces post-op astigmatism.