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Do I need to stop wearing contact lenses before ICL surgery?

hirva18Dec 28, 2017
I'm going for icl surgery so do I need to stop wearing contacts 1 week before 9r I can stop it before 4-5 days? Please ans soon

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Dr. Ahad Mahootchi, MD
Oculoplastic Surgeon, Board Certified in Ophthalmology
Answered on Jan 16, 2018
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Emil William Chynn, MD, FACS, MBA

ICL is more risky and also more expensive PRK hurts abs takes forever to healLasik is unsafe for thin corneas/high RxYour best option would be LASEK which is like a modern PRK

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William Wiley, MD

I use a two week guideline for my patients. It's reasonable.  If you leave them out longer, it's ok.  I wouldn't leave them out for a shorter window though.  Two weeks is pretty typical for most surgeries- assuming that it's some variety of soft lens.

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Emil William Chynn, MD, FACS, MBA

It would be 100% crazy to get an ICL for -7 if you had a normal topography, so since you said many MDs said to get ICL, i am concluding you have irregular astigmatism so they think you might have FF KC, which one of them probably should have told you, so you don't have to hear that from me;)so...

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