Opening

  Procedure has been found out casually Dr. Svyatoslav Fyodorov who has removed a glassful from an eye of one of its patients which were as a result of accident. The boy who wore oculars, has decreased the bicycle and the points blasted on a concussion, with the glass particles disposed in his eyes. Procedure has been executed consisting of making of numerous radial slits which were stretched from a pupil to cornea periphery in structure as wheel spokes. After the glassful has been removed (this method) and the cured cornea, it has found, that sight of the patient has been considerably refined.

Procedure details

  In radial keratotomy (RK), slits become with the gaged diamond knife of accuracy. Slits should be rather deep to cause the central corneal alignment, and procedure is not so exact as LASIK and PRK. It is a little surgeons now carry out RK because it is less predicted.

Arched keratotomy it is still popular to correct an astigmatism. It also becomes with a diamond knife, but in these cases, pieces become a parallel to cornea edge.