SURGERY FOR MYOPIA  

 

(= myopia = negative correction) 

 

-less than 20 years: contact lenses, because myopia can still evolve. If you have problems with your current lenses, you can always try "super lenses" (hold more water / let more oxygen through ). 

 

-between 20 and 40 years:

between -1 and -8 (sometimes down to -10 ): femtolasik - scratches have not been used since 1996 due to insufficiently precise and progressive hypermetropisation.

 Above -8: Implantation of hard contact lens (artisan lens= irisclaw lens) . Implantation of a soft lens (ICL) is also possible, and this is being used more and more in recent years because it can also easily correct astigmatism.
 

-more than 45 years:

From this age we sometimes see the beginning of cataracts (= clouding of the eye lens).  In that case it is better to remove the clouded lens at an early stage. After all, when applying a new artificial lens, the aim can also be to ensure that the glasses correction is very close to zero. Reading requires another pair of glasses. Usually we solve this by making one eye (= the dominant eye) a little more nearsighted. In this way you can look far with one eye and read with one eye ("mono vision" ). With light double vision glasses you can make both eyes look far and both eyes can read.  In this way you will not lose the optimal vision. Double vision implant lenses are also a possibility, but we know that some patients do not tolerate them well. It is difficult to predict in advance who this will be. That is why we have personally chosen not to apply double vision implant lenses (yet). 

 

IMPORTANT REMARK:

If, in addition to myopia, there is also astigmatism, you should know that astigmatism can only partly be solved with ordinary ("spherical") implant lenses. Sometimes a "fine-tuning" is done with laser after 3 months, in order to get rid of the residual astigmatism as well. Since 2015 there are special "toric" lenses that can solve astigmatism.