Surgical Correction of vision without Laser treatment
About 50% of the population wears glasses or contact lenses to correct their sight. For one reason or another they are unhappy with their spectacles, or struggle with the daily problems of contact lens use.lens.
Although for many laser surgery can be used to correct their sight, there remains a group of patients who for one reason or another are unsuitable for this treatment.
New surgical advances now make it possible to help these patients in a way that has not been previously possible.
If you are very short-sighted (high myopia) or long-sighted (hypermetropia) or have astmigmatism, laser treatment may not be suitable for you. However, at Yorkshire Eye Hospital alternatives that may be more suitable are available.
Accommodating Intraocular Lens (IOL)
As they get older many people are faced with either using reading glasses or varifocal/ bifocal spectacles.
Clear lens extraction
Clear lens extraction for high levels of long-sightedness or short-sightedness
Implantable Lenses
Your refractive disorder can be corrected by implanting an extra lens into your eye like an internal contact lens.
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