Corneal Surgery
Corneal surgery includes most refractive surgery as well as the following:
- Corneal transplant surgery, is used to remove a cloudy/diseased cornea and replace it with a clear donor cornea.
- Penetrating keratoplasty (PK)
- Keratoprosthesis(KPro)
- Phototherapeutic keratectomy (PTK)
- Pterygium excision
- Corneal tattooing
- Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis (OOKP), in which support for an artificial cornea is created from a tooth and its surrounding jawbone. This is a still-experimental procedure used for patients with severely damaged eyes, generally from burns.
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