My prescription is -5.5 diopters and -2.75 astigmatism in both eyes, both eyes have corneal thickness of 480 microns. I do not want to undergo anything other than PRK. I have had two consultations and one doctor recommended ICL, the other said I can have PRK and will have 370 microns of thickness left after surgery. Does this sound correct? How much cornea thickness do I need to correct -8.25 D with PRK?
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If you have PRK it will hurt a lot again so you should have LASEK instead. Contura is only for highly aberrated corneas btw, so if someone says you need that it means the 1st ablation was not great. you need intraop MMC so you don't scar after the enhancement. good luck
You're way past treatment parameters for LASIK, your astigmatism wouldn't be corrected much
if you got PRK it would be very painful and again your correction would regress, leaving you with astigmatism
your only solution is to do LASEK and then it would get rid of most of your astigmatism, but...
I actually treated a very nice younger man from Switzerland who flew into see me, as he did an incredible amount of research and somehow figured out I have more experience with LASEK over LASIK than any other surgeon in the US perhaps. It sounds like you have HOA. The only laser brand...
