What happens if I look away, blink, cough or sneeze during the procedure?
Nothing. Although your eye will move during surgery, eye-tracking technology ensures your safety when this happens. Compensating for eye movement is a key factor in ensuring that the laser pulses in to exactly the right place. There are different methods (video infra-red, 3D, LADAR), all of which involve detecting the position of your eye. There is a minor lag between the laser noticing your eye has moved and compensating for that movement. All trackers, to date, provide approximately the same level of delay time – most operate with a delay of less than ten milliseconds (one hundredth of a second).
