In laser removal, your ophthalmologist uses a laser to break up the eye floaters and make them less noticeable in your vision.

Vitreolysis, also known as floater laser treatment, is a non-invasive method of using nanosecond pulses of laser light to evaporate the vitreous opacities, or floaters, and sever the vitreous strands.

If your eye floaters are mild, your eye doctor may treat them with laser treatment. They will use a special laser, like the one used for LASIK treatment, to break up the floaters so you see them less.

Laser surgery is effective in breaking up big floaters into pieces that are small enough that they aren’t noticeable. An eye specialist will aim a laser at the floater in the vitreous.

Eye floaters are specks in a person’s vision. ... A laser treatment method called laser vitreolysis may break apart or dissolve larger floaters, making them less noticeable.

Laser treatment reduces eye floaters. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 07 / 170720142258.htm. The JAMA Network Journals.

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