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Best place to get C-ten done? (customized transepithelial no touch ablation)

  • 17-01-2014 8:48pm
    #1
    thisonetaken
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    I was reading up about this newish laser eye surgery technique, it sounds brilliant. It is non touch and doesn't involve the creation of a flap, you literally just have your eyelids kept open by the speculum and then the laser does everything else, there is no need for the surgeon to touch your eye at any point. Its also the fastest laser surgery available today.

    I've always been put off laser surgery because the thought of the creation of a flap on my eye while I'm awake makes me want to vomit, but this new method sounds great to me. Unfortunately its not offered in Ireland. The only places it seems to be available in is Norway, Italy, Switzerland and Canada. I found two places in Switzerland and one in Italy but their web pages are in foreign language so I had to do the page translate thing to read them. But the fact the webpages aren't in English makes me think the surgeons and staff at these places probably wont speak english anyway. So I'm looking at going to Canada to have it done but I can't seem to find any places there that offer it.

    I'm wondering has anyone here had the surgery and if so where they had it?


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  • #2
    m0nsterie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭m0nsterie


    thisonetaken wrote: »
    I was reading up about this newish laser eye surgery technique, it sounds brilliant. It is non touch and doesn't involve the creation of a flap, you literally just have your eyelids kept open by the speculum and then the laser does everything else, there is no need for the surgeon to touch your eye at any point. Its also the fastest laser surgery available today.

    I've always been put off laser surgery because the thought of the creation of a flap on my eye while I'm awake makes me want to vomit, but this new method sounds great to me. Unfortunately its not offered in Ireland.

    Lasek (unlike Lasik) does not create any flap on the eye, have you considered that?

    My LASEK procedure took about 40 seconds per eye.


  • #3
    thisonetaken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭thisonetaken


    m0nsterie wrote: »
    Lasek (unlike Lasik) does not create any flap on the eye, have you considered that?

    My LASEK procedure took about 40 seconds per eye.

    Where did you have it done? Everything I've read about Lasek says there is a flap involved in the procedure.... Can I also ask were suction cups used on your eye in the procedure?


  • #4
    m0nsterie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭m0nsterie


    thisonetaken wrote: »
    Where did you have it done? Everything I've read about Lasek says there is a flap involved in the procedure.... Can I also ask were suction cups used on your eye in the procedure?

    The Mater.
    I think you are mixing up Lasek and Lasik. There is no corneal flap with Lasek.

    I was not aware of suction cups, I'm not sure, honestly the procedure was so quick (lay head in place, have eye drops applied, eyelids held back, look at red light) - the actual operation is by far the easiest part of the whole thing. The hardest part? Worrying about it beforehand.


  • #5
    thisonetaken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 236 ✭✭thisonetaken


    m0nsterie wrote: »
    The Mater.
    I think you are mixing up Lasek and Lasik. There is no corneal flap with Lasek.

    I was not aware of suction cups, I'm not sure, honestly the procedure was so quick (lay head in place, have eye drops applied, eyelids held back, look at red light) - the actual operation is by far the easiest part of the whole thing. The hardest part? Worrying about it beforehand.

    According to wikipedia and other sources there is a flap involved with Lasek, perhaps you could edit the wikipedia page? :P

    If you're not even sure if a suction cup was involved then chances are there was also a flap involved.

    The worst 3 things about laser eye surgery is the eyelid holder, the suction ring used on the eyeball and the flap so if I can avoid 2 of these I will. After looking online it seems there are similiar techniques to C-ten carried out in Canada, the US and the UK, so currently trying to find out stats for each of the techniques before deciding which one to go for.


  • #6
    m0nsterie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭m0nsterie


    thisonetaken wrote: »
    According to wikipedia and other sources there is a flap involved with Lasek, perhaps you could edit the wikipedia page? :P
    Don't be smart :rolleyes:. The epithelium is moved but no corneal flap is created, as I said. That's the whole point people choose Lasek vs Lasik (when they have a choice), no nerve damage, no risk of a flap being displaced etc.
    thisonetaken wrote: »
    If you're not even sure if a suction cup was involved then chances are there was also a flap involved.
    As above. In a 40 second procedure where anaesthetic drops have been applied to your eye, you feel nothing.

    :cool:


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  • #7
    Mousewar
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    Lasek creates no flap. The epitelium is weakened with alcohol and pushed to the side. Then the laser does its thing.
    C-ten is the exact same procedure except they use laser bursts to push the epitelium away.

    It would be mental to fly to Canada to have a procedure that is only very marginally different and with no clear advantage and nowhere near the kind of track record as traditional prk/Lasek and when you'll be unable to visit the clinic regularly for followups or if you have any problems.


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