Custom Wavefront LASIK
Laser Vision Correction - Los Angeles

Establish Candidacy

Schedule an appointment Establish your candidacy Your pre-operative eye exam Schedule your procedure Prepare for your procedure

Your LASIK procedure Return home for recovery Return for your post-op exams Enhancements Enjoy the benefits!

Seibel Vision Surgery keeps stringent standards for LASIK in order to ensure your Personal Best Vision.

There are 4 basic categories of candidates:
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• Ideal LASIK candidate
• Temporary less than ideal LASIK candidate
• Less than ideal LASIK candidate
• Not a LASIK candidate

• Age of at least 21 years
• Vision that has stabilized with a consistent glasses or contact lens prescription for at least 2 years
• Cornea of sufficient thickness and appropriate curvature - to allow the creation of a clean corneal flap of appropriate depth for LASIK.
• At least 1 of the common types of vision problems:

  • Myopia (nearsightedness)
  • Hyperopia (farsightedness)
  • Astigmatism (irregular shaped eye)

• Free of any disease, vision-related or otherwise, that may reduce the effectiveness of surgery or the ability to heal properly and quickly
• Adequately informed about the benefits and risks of LASIK

May be ideal LASIK candidate at a later date

Sometimes factors exist that may keep you from being a candidate immediately, but do not preclude your being a candidate entirely:

• Eyes that are not fully mature, which usually means less than 21 years of age
• Vision that has not stabilized with a consistent glasses or contact lens prescription for at least 1 year.
• Pregnancy or nursing
• History of ocular herpes within a year prior
• Refractive errors too severe for treatment with current technology*

*Current FDA-approval defines appropriate candidates as those with myopia up to -12 diopters, astigmatism up to 6 diopters and hyperopia up to +6 diopters.

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Less than ideal LASIK candidate

Sometimes factors exist that might preclude you from being an ideal for LASIK surgery:

• History of dry eyes
• Medications such as steroids or immunosuppressants, which can slow or prevent healing
• Diseases that slow healing, such as autoimmune disorders
• Scarring of the cornea

Not a LASIK candidate

There are certain conditions and circumstances that exclude individuals from being candidates for LASIK surgery:

• Conditions such as cataracts, amblyopia, strabismus, advanced glaucoma, corneal diseases, corneal thinning disorders (keratoconus or pellucid marginal degeneration), or certain other pre-existing eye diseases that affect or threaten vision
• Collagen vascular diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, or significant problems with wound healing.
• Refusal to give informed consent
• Not having realistic expectations

Dr. Seibel will then discuss the results of your evaluation with you. Upon your decision to proceed, we will schedule your pre-operative eye exam.

Next step: Your pre-operative eye exam.