Lasik for -0.5D Power to Get 6/6 Vision?

asked 2 years ago by savvy in chandigarh
Latest answer by Emil Chynn, MD
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dear sir,
i have to join my training soon as i have qualified as a cadet in merchant navy. i have been given time for eye correction surgery by my sponsoring company. the requirements are 6/6 vision unaided in both the eyes. i just have -0.5d power in both the eyes. i see 6/6 line as readable but a bit hazy which results in sometimes a problem to read each word of the snellen line completely.now sir pleeez tell me if laser vision correction will help me or not.bcoz my power is too small.sir please advise me.

4 answers to Lasik for -0.5D Power to Get 6/6 Vision?

Mild visual corrections with LASIK

LASER refractive surgery will do an excellent job correcting your mild refractive error. Since you are entereing the merchant navy, it may make sense to opt for a surface treatment such as LASEK. With this treatment, there will be a slower return to great vision, but there will be lewss side effects and no flap complications. This may be important in your profession.

Cary M. Silverman, MD
West Orange Ophthalmologist

LASIK will work for mild corrections

The thing you have going for you is that you are young I would assume, so even a small overcorrection would still leave you with 6/6 vision or better. In the USA we refer to 6/6 as 20/20 since we discuss feet and not meters. Better than 20/20 is 20/15 or in your case 6/5 vision. Since you have a small correction, LASIK should be able to accomplish giving you sharp 6/6 vision or better assuming that your eye exam is otherwise normal. For many people, your current level of vision is... more

Jon Dishler, MD
Denver Ophthalmologist

LASIK for Small Prescriptions

Dear Savvy Your prescription of -0.50 is the lower limits of what is correctable with LASIK. If your position requires better distance acuity and your best corrected acuity is better than 20/20 [which occurs commonly], you might benefit from treatment. To determine whether you are a candidate, I would recommend that you seek the care of a provider.

Sandy Feldman, MD
San Diego Ophthalmologist

LASIK vs LASEK for low degrees amounts of myopia

I would NOT do LASIK for a Rx as low as -0.50, as the RISK BENEFIT RATIO IS NOT GOOD. That means you're already seeing about 20/25 with nothing now, and there's about a 1:100 chance you would see WORSE if I cut a flap in your eye, lasered off the -0.50, and then put the flap back down. This is why most ethical and honorable LASIK surgeons have a LOWER LIMIT for what they will agree to laser--normally it has to be above -0.75, or certainly -0.50. I actually got into an argument... more

Emil Chynn, MD
New York Ophthalmologist

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