Prescription Glasses Glasses are another effective way to correct astigmatism. Your optometrist may recommend a single-vision, bifocal or progressive glasses. Refractive surgery Undergoing surgery to correct astigmatism will mostly eliminate the need to wear contact lenses or glasses. However, your doctor...
The more recent scanning-beam lasers use a fixed-diameter spot to rapidly resculpt the cornea as determined by the computer. The beam can be directed to ablate the steep areas more and avoid the flat areas to reshape the myopic astigmatic patient, but can also be used to steepen rather tha...
These lenses come in two styles – two lenses in one frame or fixed lenses. In case of two lenses in one frame, they are called trans, as in the square format. The lenses in this case are folded up and can be put into a frame to give a designer look to the eyes. For fixed one...
The effect of dynamic cyclotorsion is expected to be minimal because the eye is fixed by the treatment cone during laser application in SMILE. Cyclotorsion has been reported to be the main reason for suboptimal visual outcomes in the correction of myopic astigmatism with SMILE, an error of ...
Patients and methods: Between May 1994 and June 1998, 36 patients with peripheral facial paresis and lagophthalmos were treated with a pretarsally fixed upper-lid implant. We used 99.99 % gold for the implants with a weight of 1.5 g on average. Results: In all cases we obtained ...
2. A fixed value for the reference plane of Φ = zero is used for analysis of temporal cor- neal incisions placed exactly in 0°. It may also be employed for interim calculations and pop- ulation statistics within a with-the-rule (WTR) and against-the-rule (ATR) concept. By ...