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Laser Thermokeratoplasty or LTK is one more form of laser eye surgery.  It is used to treat astigmatisms and farsightedness.  The laser beam is used to shrink and reshape the cornea using laser beams.  Astigmatisms, and farsightedness can be corrected in seconds with no incision and no removal of any tissue.
 
This technique is good but […]

Cataract surgery is one of the most common eye surgery performed in the United States.  The success rate of cataract surgery is over 98 percent.  Cataracts appear as a clouding of the lens and affects vision as a person ages.  Surgery is performed to give the aging patient better vision.  Cataract surgery is done as […]

People who have a common vision problem such as nearsightedness (myopia) are finding a correction surgery that involves implantable lenses.  Implantable lenses may be another choice for correcting your vision problems.  An implant that resembles contact lenses are placed between the iris and the cornea, or just behind the iris.
 
This is an alternative to the […]

Like any surgery, there are a lot of emotions that run through a patients mind while preparing themselves for eye surgery. Many patients have to mentally prepare themselves for the surgery ahead.
 
The mind is an amazing jigsaw of thoughts and processes that help define the people we are, but it can also bring out our […]

The original laser eye surgery or PRK is one of the most common surgical vision corrections.  Photorefractive Keratectomy has been grouped under the umbrella term “laser eye surgery.”  Each surgery is a little different from the other and improvements have been made to all techniques to allow a patient to show improvement in a few […]

Eye muscle surgery, officially called strabismus surgery, is used to correct misaligned eyes and is done by the use of surgical techniques on the extra ocular muscles.
 
There are seven muscles in total within the eye these are the
 

Levator palpebrae superioris
Superior rectus
Inferior rectus
Lateral rectus
Medial rectus
Superior oblique
Inferior oblique

 
Definition of misaligned eyes
 
When we look at an object our […]

No, I don’t mean when your eyes look at every person of the opposite sex who comes into your line of sight!  Sometimes a person may have an eye that doesn’t follow the other eye.  This means vision is out of alignment and corrections need to be made to the extraocular muscles.  These muscles are […]

The popularity of LASIK surgery to correct vision problems increases in popularity.  More patients are choosing this method of surgery for correcting their vision problems every year.  As with any other surgery, there are risks and complications involved.  Factual clinical information needs to be looked at to decide if the benefits of LASIK surgery outweigh […]

If someone has a refractive error in the eye this means they have an abnormal shaped eye or cornea, or they have a hardened lens. By having one of these conditions, it means they suffer with visual impairment because the lights rays do not reached the retina at the correct state that a normal healthy […]

There are other surgeries on the eye that are not specifically to improve your vision.  There are conditions and complications of the eye that do need laser or incision surgery.  One of the most common forms of eye surgery is to remove cataracts.  A cataract is a cloudiness of the eye’s lens and is normally […]