Astigmatism treatment methods

How to make a success with refractive lens exchange? It depends on the patient’s education, expectation, surfacial status of the eye, such as tear film, fundus of the eye and the rate of posterior capsule opacification. The most important is to reduce residual refracive error, especially the astigmatism.

Treatment methods:

1. Spectcles. Wear toric glasses.

2. Toric contact lens. Such as soft contact lens and RGP.

3. Corneal surgery.

Incision: AK: Aracuate keratotomy LRI: Limber relaxing incision RK: Radial keratotomy Incisional modification: 0.5-1.0D

Excimer Laser: PRK: Photorefractive keratectomy Lasik: Laser in situ keratomileusis Lasek: Laser Epithelial Keratomileusis(Laser sub-epithelial )keratotectomy Sbk-lasik: Sub-Bowman-Keratomileusis Epi-lasik: Epipolis laser More >