REFRACTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURE-SMILE:

SMILE is a new type of keyhole laser eye surgery that can help people with higher degrees of short-sightedness correct their vision. SMILE stands for Small Incision Lenticule Extraction and is a minimally invasive bladeless treatment. People with or without astigmatism can benefit from SMILE eye surgery, which is an excellent alternative to the more well-known LASIK and LASEK procedures.

All refractive defects are treated with LASIK. SMILE can correct myopia with or without astigmatism, but not just farsightedness or astigmatism. In order for the excimer laser to reach the inside of your eye, LASIK requires a flap to be cut in the cornea.

Throughout the procedure, you will be awake.They do, however, utilise anaesthetic eye drops, so you will feel numbness or a slight heaviness in your eyes throughout the treatment, but no discomfort.

Disease Overview:

Severe Myopia

Astigmatism, hyperopia (farsightedness), and myopia are the most frequent refractive defects (nearsightedness). Astigmatism is a disorder in which the cornea's irregular curvature causes two focus points to fall in two distinct places, blurring objects up close and far away.

Disease Signs and Symptoms

• When staring at faraway objects, eyesight becomes hazy.
• To see clearly, you must squint or partially close your eyes.
• Eye strain causes headaches.
• Driving a car may be difficult, especially at night (night myopia)

Disease Causes:

Astigmatism occurs when the cornea is unusually bent, causing light to contact the retina in two separate areas, obscuring vision for things close and far away. The focus of distant things behind the retina causes hyperopia, which causes items up close to look out of focus.

Disease Diagnosis:

Using conventional eye exams, your eye care professional can diagnose myopia. Myopia is most commonly diagnosed in children, however it can also occur in adults due to visual stress or diabetes. Adults. Your doctor will examine how your eyes focus light and determine the strength of any corrective lenses you might require.

Disease Treatment:

Myopia can occur at any age, and corrective lenses such as glasses or contact lenses can assist to enhance visual quality. Myopia progresses in varying degrees throughout infancy until stabilising in the late teens and early twenties.

When high hyperopia is combined with eye misalignment ("convergent squint") or lazy eye in childhood, spectacle correction may be required. Adults with moderate to extreme hyperopia almost often require spectacle correction.

To correct presbyopia, optical aids like as glasses (e.g., bifocal or progressive glasses) and contact lenses (e.g., bifocal contact lenses, monovision correction) can be used.

Presbyopia can be corrected via cataract or clear lens excision and a carefully designed, suitably powered intraocular lens implant.