Yes, in most cases, LASIK can fully correctastigmatism, and the effect is permanent. Astigmatism is a very common vision problem. Despite having a somewhat scary-sounding name, astigmatism is not an eye disease — it's simply a refractive error like nearsightedness and farsightedness — and ...
b. Near visual acuity of any degree that does not correct to 20/40 in the better eye. c. Refractive error (hyperopia, myopia, astigmatism), in any spherical equivalent of worse than -8.00 or +8.00 diopters; if ordinary spectacles cause discomfort by reason of ghost images or prismatic dis...
LASIK is a treatment for the correction of myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism. It has advantages over photorefractive keratectomy, such as less postoperative pain and more rapid recovery, but complications can still occur. One complication is flap striae...
I’ve acquired some scratches on my corneas (mostly left eye) that make astigmatism correction a rough approximation. When I got cataract surgery 8 years ago, my doctor and I set up the right lens optimized for distance (almost no correction) with the left eye optimized for reading. Worked...