{"id":5334,"date":"2018-11-28T17:34:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T09:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/103.11.207.10\/~perthlas\/?page_id=5334"},"modified":"2020-07-07T15:36:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T07:36:18","slug":"lasik-xtra","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/103.11.207.10\/~perthlas\/lasik-xtra\/","title":{"rendered":"LASIK Xtra"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What is LASIK Xtra?<\/h2>\n<p>LASIK Xtra is an exciting new treatment that allows more people to be suitable for LASIK than ever before. Have you been told you aren&#8217;t suitable for LASIK due to thin or abnormal corneas, or your refractive error is too high?<\/p>\n<p>LASIK Xtra is a simple treatment performed in conjunction with LASIK to add biomechanical strength to your cornea. \u00a0<span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">This treatment is more commonly suggested for people with highly short-sighted or astigmatic prescriptions, in order to improve the safety and effectiveness of the treatment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>LASIK Xtra adds just a few extra minutes to the LASIK treatment. In this treatment, riboflavin (vitamin B) eye drops are soaked into the corneas followed by shining Ultraviolet A (UVA) light of a precise wavelength and energy for 1 minute. This has the effect of strengthening the cornea.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-row\"><div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-2\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_5351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5351\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5351 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/103.11.207.10\/~perthlas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/keratoconus-crosslinking-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UV light is shone onto the cornea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div> <div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-2\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_5490\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5490\" style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5490 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/103.11.207.10\/~perthlas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/keratoconus-1-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/103.11.207.10\/~perthlas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/keratoconus-1-264x300.jpg 264w, http:\/\/103.11.207.10\/~perthlas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/keratoconus-1.jpg 357w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cross linked (upper) cornea is firmer than a normal cornea (lower image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>This UV treatment is also called corneal cross-linking and is used in the treatment of certain diseases of the cornea, such as keratoconus.<\/p>\n<p>Ultraviolet A (UVA) is one of the three types of invisible light rays given off by the sun (together with UVB and UVC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is LASIK Xtra? LASIK Xtra is an exciting new treatment that allows more people to be suitable for LASIK than ever before. Have you been told you aren&#8217;t suitable for LASIK due to thin or abnormal corneas, or your refractive error is too high? LASIK Xtra is a simple treatment performed in conjunction with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-sidebar.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/103.11.207.10\/~perthlas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/103.11.207.10\/~perthlas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/103.11.207.10\/~perthlas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/103.11.207.10\/~perthlas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/103.11.207.10\/~perthlas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/103.11.207.10\/~perthlas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/103.11.207.10\/~perthlas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}