Many myopic friends may have struggled between vision correction surgery and wearing glasses. In fact, at present, these two vision correction methods are very mature and have their own advantages, and everyone is more concerned about whether they meet their own needs and how to achieve satisfactory correction results.
So, today we will briefly list the advantages and disadvantages of vision correction surgery and glasses correction, you may wish to "sit down" and see if it is suitable for you.
Adapt to the crowd
Wear glasses for correctionAs the most common means of vision correction at present, it covers almost all age groups, including young children, teenagers, young adults, middle-aged and elderly people, who can correct their vision by wearing glasses.
Vision correction surgeryThere are certain age restrictions, and it is necessary to reach the age of 18 and have basically stable vision before it is recommended to consider surgical correction. Moreover, with the advancement of surgical technology, presbyopia can also be corrected through special scheme design. Therefore, some middle-aged friends under the age of 45 can also consider surgical removal.
Corrective effect
For most friends with myopia, farsightedness, and astigmatism, wearing glasses and vision correction surgery have good results. However, in the correction of high myopia, ultra-high myopia, and complex astigmatism, the two correction methods can be said to have their own advantages.
Wearing glasses is an external optical correction method, so friends with a high number of lenses can also achieve the purpose of correction by making the lenses thicker, without being limited by eye conditions, such as corneal thickness. In vision correction surgery, laser surgery has high requirements for corneal conditions, and if the cornea is too thin and too convex, it may not be possible to perform surgery.
However, the lenses of eyeglasses may be deformed at a certain distance from our eyes at a high degree of power, and the correction effect of complex astigmatism caused by complex corneal morphology is also average. Laser surgery, on the other hand, is to "carve" a pair of glasses directly on the cornea, so the visual effect is more natural. With personalized surgery, it is also possible to perform highly precise astigmatism correction for each individual's corneal morphology.
Of course, vision correction is not only based on the degree of myopia, farsightedness, and astigmatism, but also on the overall health of the eyes. If there is an eye disease such as fundus lesions, optic nerve damage, cataracts, or abnormal vision development due to amblyopia, it may be difficult to improve vision.
Convenience
The advantages of wearing glasses are mainly reflected in the ease of use, especially the glasses, which can be freely taken off according to needs, and there is no learning cost, both the elderly and children can learn as soon as they learn. However, on special occasions such as hot springs, swimming pools, or rain or snow, glasses are more inconvenient to use. Moreover, no matter how careful you are, glasses will inevitably wear and tear during use, so they usually need to be replaced regularly.
Surgery takes more time than glasses for correction, but it can usually be done in a day. In the case of laser surgery, which we often say, the main time is spent on preoperative examinations, about 1It takes 5 hours, and the operation only takes more than 10 minutes, and the time for laser injection is calculated in seconds. Lens implantation surgery still needs to wait for the lens to be customized, but the procedure is just as convenient and quick.
After vision correction surgery, most cases are the same as if there is no myopia, and normal use of the eyes is sufficient. However, it is important to remind everyone that vision correction surgery cannot eliminate the fundus changes caused by myopia, so it is still necessary to develop good eye habits and have regular check-ups after surgery. Especially for patients with high myopia, regular fundus examinations are recommended.