Types of Refractive Surgery



Blurry or distorted vision
Eyestrain
Headaches
Trouble seeing at night
Refractive Error Types: Are You Impacted?
How Refractive Surgery Helps
Refractive eye surgery involves reshaping the cornea (front surface of the eye) to correct its curvature. When the eyeball is shaped like a perfectly round ball, light is able to enter the eye and bend evenly to give you a clear image. However, if your eye has a curvature imperfection (or more oval shape), light is angled more in one direction than another which provides only partial focus on an object. This curvature and non-ideal refraction of light causes objects to look blurry, wavy or distorted.
Nearsighted
By reducing the curvature of an overly angled cornea, surgery balances your focusing power.
Farsighted
Surgery increases the eye’s focusing power on near objects by achieving a steeper corneal angle.
Astigmatism
Selective reshaping of irregular portions of the cornea makes it symmetrical, resulting in clear images.