Optometry

Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Refractive surgery is a strategy for correcting or enhancing vision, such as nearsightedness (nearsightedness), farsightedness (hyperopia), astigmatism, or presbyopia. By reshaping the cornea, or clear, circular vault at the front of your eye, numerous surgical ways for adjusting your eye's centering capacity are available. Embedding a focal point into the eye is one of the approaches used. LASIK (laser-assisted situ keratomileusis) is the most common type of refractive surgery, in which a laser is used to reshape the cornea. Certain refractive surgical techniques for myopic people minimise the bend of an extremely steep cornea, lowering the eye's centering power. Pictures that are engaged before the retina as a result of a longer eye or a soak corneal bend are brought closer to or directly onto the retina after surgery.