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2. LASIK - Wikipedia

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   Surveys of LASIK surgery find rates of patient satisfaction between 92 and 98 percent. [40] [41] [42] In March 2008, the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery published a patient satisfaction meta-analysis of over 3,000 peer-reviewed articles from international clinical journals. Data from a systematic literature review conducted ...

3. Cataract surgery - Wikipedia

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   Cataract surgery may be performed to correct vision problems on both eyes. If both eyes are suitable, people are usually advised to consider monovision. This procedure involves inserting an IOL providing near vision into one eye, while using one that provides distance vision for the other eye.

4. Phakic intraocular lens - Wikipedia

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   LASIK can correct myopia up to -12 to -14 D. The higher the intended correction the thinner and flatter the cornea will be post-operatively. For LASIK surgery, one has to preserve a safe residual stromal bed of at least 250 μm, preferably 300 μm. Beyond these limits there is an increased risk of developing corneal ectasia (i.e. corneal ...

5. FDA Warns of Potential Side Effects Associated With LASIK Surgery

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   LASIK is a surgery that is used to correct refractive errors, such as far-sightedness, near-sightedness, and astigmatism, so that people can be less dependent on glasses and contact lenses to get ...

6. Laser blended vision - Wikipedia

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   Similarly, cataract surgery can be performed together with Laser Blended Vision to provide a patient with better spectacle independence than can be afforded by simple monovision and without the decrease in quality of vision that is produced by a Multifocal intraocular lens. Multifocal intraocular lenses work by splitting the light entering the ...

7. Cataract - Wikipedia

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   Femtosecond laser mode-locking, used during cataract surgery, was originally used to cut accurate and predictable flaps in LASIK surgery, and has been introduced to cataract surgery. The incision at the junction of the sclera and cornea and the hole in capsule during capsulorhexis, traditionally made with a handheld blade, needle, and forceps ...