Laser eye correction (LASIK - Laser-Assisted in Situ Keratomileusis)

LASIK eye surgery

1989

Gholam A. Peyman, Medicinæ Doctor in USA applied for a patent in 1989. This patent that described a method of modifying corneal refractive errors using laser ablation under a corneal flap. Nowadays this invention is most widely known as LASIK eye surgery,[6]a vision correction procedure designed to allow people to see clearly without glasses.