Can corneal surgery correct my astigmatism in my right eye?
This would depend on the nature and depth of the scarring. First course of action would be to undergo PTK, a surface orientated laser procedure to ablate the scarred tissue. Once this has been done, the residual astigmatism can be looked at. This is generally a 2 stage procedure as the scarring is causing a significant amount of the astigmatism – so a normal gap of around 3 months occurs between the 2 stages. This type of procedure is not going to be offered at the large LASIK chains, you should seek a smaller clinic who undertake specialised corneal work as well as the commoner laser procedures. The practises that I work for are UK based, but we have a very close association with Dr Paul Hughes in Sydney. His details are as follows: http://www.southline.com.
