# How does laser eye surgery work?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED-Ed
- Speaker: Dan Reinstein
- Year: 2019
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Medicine and health, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_reinstein_how_does_laser_eye_surgery_work)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

In 1948, Spanish ophthalmologist Jose Ignacio Barraquer Moner was fed up with glasses. He wanted a solution for blurry vision that fixed the eye itself, without relying on external aids. The surgery he eventually devised was called "keratomileusis," and his technique focused on reshaping the cornea— what we now know as LASIK. So how does laser eye surgery actually work? Dan Reinstein explains. \[Directed by Hype CG, narrated by Addison Anderson\].

## Lectures

1. [How does laser eye surgery work?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/dan_reinstein_how_does_laser_eye_surgery_work/6c3ebe0ca92c), 6 min (TED's player)