“What happens if you blink during laser eye surgery?”
I am a 28 year old male and I will have laser eye surgery. What happens if you blink during laser eye surgery?
15 Answers
You will not blink during surgery because an instrument called a lid speculum will be used to hold your eyelids open.
During most laser procedures, a contact lens is used to both stabilize the eye and improve visualization. As such, patients are prevented from blinking during any laser procedure. It is an exceedingly rare occurrence.
Your physician will place a speculum, which is effectively a spring, to keep you from blinking during the procedure.
No worries! You are unable to blink during this procedure! Doctors use a special small device once your eyes are numb to keep them open.
No need to worry about blinking. Surgeons use a holder to keep your eye open.
Before laser eye surgery a small metal eyelid speculum is placed between your upper and lower lid to prevent blinking
You can’t. No need to worry. Talk to your eye surgeon for specifics for your type of surgery.
During laser eye surgery your eyelids are held open by a small non-painful device so you do not have to worry about blinking.
New lasers will automatically stop the emissions during blinking, usually topical anesthetic that is used prior to surgery will block the blinking reflex .
I don't think you'll need to worry about that. The surgeon will put in drops that will numb everything and also put a device in that will hold the eyes open. No need to even think about it!
Do not worry, blinking is prevented by numbing the eye and placing a spring that keeps the eye open. The computer system is also tracking the eye and will pause if anything interferes with the laser procedure.
Dr. Imtiaz Ahmad Chaudhry
Ophthalmologist | Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Houston, TX
There should not be a problem if you blink while laser surgery is ongoing. For corneal refractive laser surgery, ophthalmologists usually use a lid speculum which keeps lids apart for the eye being worked on. When you try to blink, you can blink the non operative eye but the eye undergoing laser would not be able to blink because of the eyelid speculum. Further, most laser machines have eye tracking system which follows the eye movements and can adjust to your eyes movement while performed laser procedure. The person who is getting laser surgery for their retina, may also have an eyelid sepculum placed between their eyelids and the surgeon can adjust when patient tries to blink.
Imtiaz A. Chaudhry, MD, PhD, FACS
Imtiaz A. Chaudhry, MD, PhD, FACS
You can't. They have an instrument to hold the eye open.
You won’t! Your eyes are opened with the help of lid retractors.
You can't blink during eye surgery as your eyelids will be held apart by a speculum.
