Surely you have heard, as a last resort, the surgery as a treatment to cure amblyopia or lazy eye.
We must remember, as we have already commented in other articles on this blog to which we recommend you go to broaden your knowledge regarding amblyopia, that before hearing anything related to surgery, there are multitude of treatments.
One of these Treatments is what we offer in DICOPT. Thanks to the study and development that we patent in our company through Virtual Reality and with the use of video games, children potentially improve their lazy eye treatment.
In addition, with this type of therapy, children show their satisfaction and commitment when doing your exercises thereby improving your visual acuity.
Is it possible to operate a case of amblyopia or lazy eye?
That said, go to a professional to correct the amblyopia or lazy eye through surgery not possible. basically because does not exist lazy eye surgery.
Normally, when talking about surgery, people confuse the lazy eye surgery with strabismus surgery. For this last visual defect, there is a surgical solution, but in the case of amblyopia it is not possible because, basically, it is a "problem" of the brain when it stops working with the lazy eye.
Not curing amblyopia can lead to other visual problems How can strabismus be? In other words, if amblyopia is not treated, it can lead to other visual problems that can be operated on.
How is amblyopia cured?
Therefore, the solution to amblyopia or lazy eye is to make the image difficult for the healthy eye, so that it is the lazy eye that sends the images to the brain and forces it to work with it, so that visual acuity is improved. For this reason there is no surgery for this visual defect.
The sooner lazy eye is detected and therefore treated, the result will be better.
The age range to improve the effectiveness of the cure is up to 8 or 9 years, when the visual system is finished developing. This does not mean that, after that age, amblyopia cannot be cured, but the ideal is to detect it in time to treat it as soon as possible.
Therefore, and by way of summary, when dealing with the concept of lazy eye surgery, surely it is a confusion, since surgery to treat amblyopia does not exist.
There are various treatments to improve visual acuity, including DICOPT.