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Paragon CRT for astigmatism without myopia

 
 
Chuck
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      04-30-2010, 03:53 AM

My new eye doc claims to have had success with CRT on patients with
astigmatism and no myopia. Nothing I've read makes it seem like this
is possible. Can anyone comment?
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      04-30-2010, 02:22 PM
Mike Tyner wrote:

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> "Chuck" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
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> > My new eye doc claims to have had success with CRT on patients with
> > astigmatism and no myopia. Nothing I've read makes it seem like
> > this is possible. Can anyone comment?

>
> The only time I ever see perfectly spherical corneas is when they've
> been molded spherical by a rigid contact lens. It looks spooky, not
> having the normal bumps and valleys on corneal topography.
>
> But yes, certainly, ortho-k can eliminate corneal astigmatism.
>
> Unfortunately most people have some lenticular astigmatism too.
>
> -MT


Great to hear. I have fantastic vision with non-toric RGP lenses, so I
think I must have nearly all corneal astigmatism. Now just to decide
whether I think I can stand sleeping in hard lenses...

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