What is Procedure of Lasik?

Here is an outline of the Brief Procedure of Lasik

A knife, called a microkeratome, is used to cut a flap in the cornea.

A hinge is left at one end of this flap.

The flap is folded back revealing the stroma, the middlesection of the cornea.

Pulses from a computer-controlled excimer lasik laser vaporize a portion of the stroma.

The flap is replaced.