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Myopia occurs due to an imbalance between the length of the eyeball and the optical force of the eye causing the image to focus in front of the retina. Each person can be nearsighted due to direct or indirect causes.
Today, along with the great development of medicine, people with myopia can choose 2 ways to correct refractive aberrations: glasses or nearsightedness surgery. However, in addition to the wishes of the patient, the doctor also needs to determine the patient's health and eye condition to be able to give appropriate indications such as myopia surgery, myopia surgery, myopia surgery. Lasik vision, laser myopia surgery or Ortho K glasses.
The advantage of vision correction with glasses is that it is simple, anyone can apply it, correcting deviations is accurate and predictable. Okay. Myopia surgery or myopia surgery is a method that can help cure myopia, but can only be performed when the patient is over 18 years old.
Current methods of treating myopia:
Wearing glasses: Is the simplest, inexpensive and most popular method of myopia treatment today, applicable to all subjects and ages, especially suitable for people who cannot operate nearsightedness. People with nearsightedness can choose to wear glasses or contact lenses. This method has the limitation that frequent wearing of glasses makes nearsighted people uncomfortable, affecting some daily activities. Laser excimer surgery: Also known as laser myopia surgery, this is a popular method about 10 years ago. The advantages of Excimer laser myopia surgery are painless, fast recovery time, and maximum myopia elimination. Currently, there are many laser eye surgery methods, of which the most popular is still laser eye surgery. This is a surgical method to create a corneal flap with a knife. The outstanding advantage of Lasik myopia surgery is that it is safe, but it still leaves unpleasant complications after myopia surgery and is not suitable for patients with high myopia and high astigmatism. In case the patient has severe myopia, phakic eye surgery will be the optimal solution. This is a special laser myopic eye surgery method for patients with high myopia and large astigmatism that LASIK cannot intervene. Ortho K glasses: This method is used to correct myopia for people who are not old enough for surgery (under 18 years old) or who do not want surgery. Ortho K is a nighttime contact lens, temporarily eliminating myopia by the ability to correct the cornea. The biggest advantage and also the reason why wearing Ortho K glasses is so popular is because of the improved vision without having to wear glasses or contact lenses all day. Visible effects can be achieved after 2 days of using glasses for light and possibly after 2 weeks for severe. The method of wearing Ortho K glasses should only be applied to mild myopia cases, and has a temporary effect. When discontinuing use, the cornea will gradually return to its original curved state.
