14y/o had cataract surgery at 1y/o .Which surgery comes first lens implant or astigmatism? Does it matter?
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Answer by Hillbert
Depends — unless it’s a large amount of astigmatism, it usually is “both”. You either get a toric lens implant, or limbal relaxing incisions (which goes by different names; basically small incisions that make the cornea more spherical when it heals). A toric lens would be implanted instead of a ‘regular’ (spherical) one, whereas the other corneal incisions are usually done at the same time as the regular lens implant. Either way, it shouldn’t make much difference.
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