PAI-LASIK
New PAI-LASIK (Photoablative Inlay LASIK)Eye Surgery Technology
This technology can make laser correction reversible and facilitates effective laser correction of higher degrees.It has the potential to extend the range of near-sightedness correctable by LASIK and if necessary can for the first time make the LASIK procedure reversible.The technology consists of a corneal inlay that is designed to shape the human cornea during laser vision correction surgery.
PAI-LASIK is invented by Gholam A. Peyman, MD, this process was invented to help improve LASIK for correcting higher degrees of refractive errors. This process involves creating a flap in the cornea, placing a synthetic PAI on the stromal bed, and then perform the excimer laser correction on the on the inlay. The flap is closed and correction is improved. This process involves little if any removal of tissue from the cornea. The synthetic PAI can be removed and another one can be inlayed again for a different correction. It is still a new process and much research is still being done on materials used and possible effects.
