LASIK Eye Surgery Denver Colorado

InSight Lasik offers LASIK surgery procedures to residents throughout the entire metro Denver area. If you live in the Denver or Boulder counties, you are fortunate to have easy access to one of the premier LASIK surgical centers in the country.

LASIK eye surgery is a surgical procedure intended to reduce a person's dependency on glasses or contact lenses. LASIK stands for Laser-Assisted In-Situ Keratomileusis, a surgical procedure that combines the use of an Excimer Laser with a surgical instrument called a microkeratome to reshape the cornea (the clear front surface of the eye). Located in beautiful Lafayette, Colorado, (near Denver, Colorado) InSight LASIK uses the most advanced microkeratome and lasers to provide the safest and most reliable results.

The cornea is a part of the eye that helps focus light to create an image on the retina. Usually the shape of the cornea and the eye are not perfect and the image on the retina is out-of-focus (blurred) or distorted. Persons with myopia, or nearsightedness, have more difficulty seeing distant objects as clearly as near objects. Persons with hyperopia, or farsightedness, have more difficulty seeing near objects as clearly as distant objects. Astigmatism is a distortion of the image on the retina caused by irregularities in the cornea or lens of the eye. Combinations of myopia and astigmatism or hyperopia and astigmatism are common.

By changing the shape of an eye that is nearsighted, farsighted or astigmatic, doctors such as InSight LASIK surgeon Warren Tripp, MD and surgeon C. Starck Johnson, MD, are able to change the eye's focal point thus allowing patients to see more clearly without glasses or contact lenses. Dr. Tripp has treated over 9,000 LASIK eye surgery patients in the Denver area.

During LASIK a thin, circular flap (about the thickness of tissue paper) is made on the outer surface of the cornea. The flap is folded back revealing the stroma, the middle section of the cornea, allowing pulses from a computer-controlled laser to treat the deeper corneal tissue. After the laser reshapes the cornea, the flap is replaced and heals securely and naturally.

Should you decide LASIK eye surgery is for you, you will need an initial consultation by one of InSight Lasik's expert doctors to determine if you are a good candidate.