Laser refractive eye surgery (PRK and LASIK)
Cirugía refractiva láser (PRK y LASIK)
- Date
- 1983-1989 · confidence high
- Place
- Columbia University, New York, United States (Trokel, 1983); University of Crete, Greece (Pallikaris, LASIK, 1989)
- Credited to
- Stephen Trokel and Rangaswamy Srinivasan (excimer laser on the cornea, IBM/Columbia); Ioannis Pallikaris (LASIK); Gholam Peyman (patent)
- People
- 👤 Ioannis Pallikaris1947–👤 Rangaswamy Srinivasan1929–👤 Stephen Trokel1934–
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Reshaping of the cornea with an ultraviolet excimer laser to correct short-sightedness without glasses. Tens of millions of people have undergone the procedure.
What it led to
- Laser ophthalmology and functional cosmetic surgery
- The medical application of photochemical ablation
- Elective consumer medicine
Built on
- PMMA intraocular lens (Ridley)1949
- The laser (and maser)1960
- Chirped pulse amplification (CPA)1985
- excimer laser (IBM, 1981)
- Barraquer's keratomileusis
Made possible
- ophthalmic femtosecond laser
- phakic intraocular lenses