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The Power of my Glasses is -11. Can Lasik Surgery Help Me to Remove Glasses? Or is There Any Other Way my Eyeside Becomes 20/20?

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LASIK for high myopia (near-sightedness)

There are a number of factors that need to be considered for your highly near-sighted prescription. 1. Corneal thickness - laser vision corrections on the cornea reduce the thickness of the cornea in order to flatten it. If your prescription is too high or the cornea is too thin, it is not safe to perform a laser vision correction. 2. Initial corneal curvature - Since the cornea is being flattened, if your cornea starts off relatively flat and must be flattened further,... more

Jay Bansal, MD

San Francisco Ophthalmologist

www.laservue.com

LASIK vs LASEK vs ICL for extreme Rxs

There is no way you can get LASIK for that high an Rx, you would run out of tissue and it wouldn't be safe i agree w dr kameen that most surgeons would recommend an ICL for Rxs higher than -10 i am presenting the largest case series in the US of extreme prescriptions like yours next week at the largest meeting of refractive surgeons in europe, ESCRS, over 200 eyes i have actually made every single eye worse than -10 see BETTER than they did in contacts or glasses after their... more

LASIK vs Intraocular Contact Lens Surgery for a -11 myopic prescription

It is likely that your visual outcome will be better if you have what is called an ICL procedure(Intraocular Contact Lens). This procedure is a little more invasive than LASIK, since an artificial lens is surgically placed inside of the eye, but, because of this, we can choose almost any power lens that is available and reverse nearsightedness even twice as severe as yours! The only way that LASIK would give you a great result would be if your corneal thickness was so abundant, that the... more

Anthony J. Kameen, MD

Baltimore Ophthalmologist

www.kameen.com

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