Myopia surgery is a way for modern people to choose to get rid of the "shackles" of myopia. It is said that it is for convenience or beauty, from having to wear glasses to colorless and colored contact lenses, all kinds of myopia correction methods are emerging.
In the face of these all kinds of corrective glasses, which can not only correct their eyesight but still do not affect their beauty, more young people who love fashion, and even middle-aged groups, are also willing to try to put down their glasses, and even more and more people choose to take off their glasses completely. Myopia surgery has gradually become a new choice for myopia groups to pursue "freedom" and yearn for a "better life".
Myopia surgery is usually divided into two broad categories.
Machine-led laser myopia correction that uses laser cutting of the cornea to correct visual acuity. The other is myopia correction with ICL lens implantation led by a professional surgeon to implant a special intraocular lens for the purpose of lens removal.
In the early stage of myopia patients, most of them are laser myopia correction. With the in-depth understanding, ICL lens implantation will also be known to patients. In addition, due to the essential difference between ICL and laser, many myopia patients who have undergone ICL lens implantation are also willing to recommend their relatives and friends to learn more about ICL lens implantation.
What is the reason for this?
First of all, it is due to the difference in the correction methods of laser myopia correction and ICL lens implantation.
Laser myopia correction needs to choose the thickness of the cornea that needs to be cut according to the degree of myopia patient. The higher the degree of myopia, the more corneas need to be cut. However, the cornea is fixed and cannot be regenerated, which means that the patient is likely to have insufficient corneal thickness or myopia is too high to cut the cornea.
For patients with high myopia, the doctor will take into account the quality of the patient's postoperative vision, so laser myopia correction will not be a very recommended way to correct myopia.
ICL lens implantation is quite different.
The myopia correction range of ICL lens implantation is 50-1800, and the maximum correction degree is 600 degrees larger than that of laser myopia correction. And because ICL myopia correction does not require cutting the patient's cornea, and even does not damage other structures in the patient's eye, the correction method is also through a special intraocular lens customized to correct the refractive error vision state.
Therefore, ICL lens implantation will not be able to achieve high-definition satisfactory visual results after surgery because the prescription of myopia patients is too high or the cornea is too thin. As long as the myopia is within the correction range, myopia patients can get a comfortable and clear postoperative vision after surgery, and the postoperative stability will be higher than that of laser myopia correction.
In the early stage of myopia surgery, patients also need to undergo a rigorous and meticulous set of preoperative examinations according to the instructions of medical staff. A professional ophthalmologist will report a comprehensive assessment based on the patient's data to determine whether the eye condition meets the requirements of myopia surgery and what type of myopia surgery is eligible.
Generally speaking, both laser and ICL can be performed in patients with low to moderate myopia who have normal eye conditions. Patients only need to choose according to their daily eye needs. For patients with high myopia of more than 550 degrees, or even ultra-high myopia of more than 900 degrees and 1000 degrees, the doctor will recommend ICL lens implantation if they meet the conditions for surgery. Because the correction principle of ICL is updated, it can better ensure the patient's good and stable postoperative results.
Every young or middle-aged person who has myopia, or even the middle-aged and elderly group, will one day realize whether it is more convenient to not wear glassesWhether it is 300 degrees of myopia, 500 degrees of myopia, 800 degrees of myopia or higher, at the level of myopia, you can choose myopia surgery to complete the lens removal.
In the end, whether it is suitable for myopia surgery, and what type of myopia surgery should be chosen, you need to do a preoperative examination first, and judge your eye needs in detail before giving more professional and accurate opinions or suggestions.