Laser eye treatment is one of the most common elective surgeries and to date over 1 million people worldwide have had this life changing procedure. For people who have worn glasses or contact lenses all their lives, the chance to free themselves from them is what they have always dreamed about. The 2 most common types of laser eye surgery are Lasik and Lasek and both have very similar visual results. Lasik however is far more popular accounting for about 7 times as many procedures as Lasek. The main reason for this is the fact that Lasik has a much quicker and more comfortable healing period. There is practically no pain involved at all with Lasik and most people can return to work and normal activities with 48 hours of the procedure. With Lasek however, there is more discomfort involved and most people need to have at least 1 week of work. There may be some incidents where your surgeon will insist that you have Lasek eye surgery due to certain characteristics of your eye such as a thin cornea.