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Refractive surgery

Refractive surgery is an optional eye surgery used to improve the refractive state of the eye and thereby decrease or eliminate dependency on glasses or contact lenses. This can include various methods of surgical remodeling of the cornea (keratomileusis), lens implantation or lens replacement. The most common methods today use excimer lasers to reshape…

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Specialty
Ophthalmology, optometry
Types
myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, presbyopia

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Refractive surgery

Nodes94
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Avg. degree1.98
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Refractive surgery

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related to Other procedures · 31
Refractive surgery → Acufocus, CK, FDA, For, Generally, Grey PhD, Holmium, ICL, Intacs, Intrastromal, IOL, IR, It, Laser, LASIK, Lin, LTK, Miller, Ph, Phakic
related to Surface procedures · 23
Refractive surgery → Advanced Surface Ablation, ASA, C-TEN, Customized Transepithelial No-touch, During, EPI-LASIK, For, It, LASEK, Laser Assisted Sub-Epithelium Keratomileusis, LASIK, LASIK/LASEK, More, Photorefractive, PRK, Recovery, Since C-TEN, Surface, The, These
related to history · 17
Refractive surgery → Barraquer, Bogotá, Colombia, Greek, His, Hjalmar August Schiøtz, In, It, Japanese, Jose Barraquer, Krumeich, Norway, Refractive, Swinger, The, Tsutomu Sato, US
related to Risks · 13
Refractive surgery → Although, Corneal, Corneal Ectasia, Furthermore, It, Keratoconus, LASIK, People, Therefore, These, Those, While, With
related to Children · 4
Refractive surgery → Changes, Interventions, Pediatric, This
related to Techniques · 2
Refractive surgery → Refractive, The
Specialty · 1
Refractive surgery → Ophthalmology, optometry
Types · 1
Refractive surgery → myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, presbyopia
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Refractive surgery → optional eye surgery used to improve the refractive state of the eye and thereby decrease or eliminate dependency on glasses or contact lenses

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refractive surgery cornea corneal laser eye lasik used flap astigmatism needed myopia also lens citation excimer keratomileusis presbyopia first procedure

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Refractive surgerySpecialtyOphthalmology, optometry1.00infobox
Refractive surgeryTypesmyopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, presbyopia1.00infobox
Refractive surgeryis aoptional eye surgery used to improve the refractive state of the eye and thereby decrease or eliminate dependency on glasses or contact lenses0.90text
myopiainstance ofRefractive eye surgeries are used to treat common vision disorders0.80text
hyperopiainstance ofRefractive eye surgeries are used to treat common vision disorders0.80text
presbyopiainstance ofRefractive eye surgeries are used to treat common vision disorders0.80text
astigmatisminstance ofRefractive eye surgeries are used to treat common vision disorders0.80text
the Ziemer create a flap similarlyinstance ofother femtosecond lasers0.80text
glareinstance ofand reduces symptoms0.80text
halosinstance ofand reduces symptoms0.80text
and night driving difficulty.Keratorefractive Lenticule Extractioninstance ofand reduces symptoms0.80text
myopiainstance ofExpectationsRefractive eye surgeries are used to treat common vision disorders0.80text

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