QUOTE(cloudlionheart @ Jan 8 2019, 11:52 AM)
Okay thanks, I'm planning to do PRK as well sometime this year. Do share us updates of your recovery experience
If you are planning for prk, you can consider for trans prk as well, it's a newer and better technology, you would have a safer, lesser discomfort, lesser risk of complications and faster recovery as compare to prk, trans prk is known as "touchless", meaning that nothing touches your eyeballs throughout the surgery, prk use device to mark and remove the epithelium manually using a scalpel like thingy, but trans prk use laser to remove the epithelium before laser on the cornea to correct vision. So far, in Malaysia, trans prk surgery is only available at Advance Vision Eye Specialist Centre if I wasn't mistaken, and they are currently using the most high tech device, Schwind Amaris 1050RS for the trans prk surgery since April/May 2017. In Singapore, this procedure is already widely available using the same device. Cost wise if your power is low, you can opt for standard RM2988, if your power is high, you would have to go for customised RM5588 for both eyes.
PRK surgery
https://youtu.be/BJz_G8mLSB4Trans PRK surgery
https://youtu.be/HSHVf5B7QJ0 From the video, you can clearly see the difference between the procedure of both of these surgery (the way they remove the epithelium) . And if you read further, you can understand more on why trans prk clearly outweigh prk as a better option for the eye surgery.
Con is just that the centre is always full of patients, you would have to wait very long for your turn, if you wouldn't mind about that.
*Just my personal opinion based on my personal understanding
This post has been edited by ashthephoenix: Jan 18 2019, 12:12 AM