Can Overcome Refractional Disorders, Doctors Introduce The Latest Eye Health Technology

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JAKARTA - An eye specialist in Denpasar, Bali, Dr Cokorda, Dewiyani Pemayun's wife, introduced a new technology to overcome refractive disorders, namely minus eyes and cylinders without the need to use glasses or contact lenses.

"Optivations can be handled in one step of laser procedures that work in seconds with a total operation of five to 10 minutes for one eye," he said as quoted by Antara.

He explained that the technology is called small incision extraction (SMILE) of about 2-4 millimeters using laser beams with a recovery process relatively fast and without pain.

According to him, the minimum surgery is the next generation to correct the shortcomings of the lasik, namely two procedural steps are needed in dealing with these refractional disorders.

The chairman of the Indonesian Eye Doctors Association (Perdami) of Bali Province added that the technology presented at the major eye clinic of JEC Denpasar is expected to answer the current challenges of the community regarding eye refraction.

There are also eye refractions, he said, such as fire speech or causing the eyes to not focus on objects.

For example, in the minus eye due to the long eye ball axis, the light that enters the eye, falls in front of the retina.

Meanwhile, in the plus eyes, rays that enter the eyes, fall behind the retina and cylindrical eyes, the rays enter the eyes and then spread so that the object looks blurry or not focused.

The World Health Agency or WHO announced that about 50 percent of individuals are expected to experience minus eyes or cylinders because of their many activities using gadgets, "added the eye consultant and director of the Denpasar JEC Eye Clinic.

Even so, for this technology, patients must be over 18 years old, not pregnant or breastfeeding, have no history of other diseases up to minus 0.5 to 10 and cylinders up to minus five.

In line with Dewiyani Pemayun, eye specialist (consultant) Dr Ni Luh Diah Pantjawati added that minus eye patients or cylinders are also experienced by many children.

For this reason, he appealed to parents to reduce the use of gadgets for children.

Parents, he continued, need to invite children to do outdoor activities, including getting to know the surrounding environment, such as rice fields, beaches or green views.

There is also a safe visibility from gadgets or television, he added, about 30 centimeters from the eyes with a duration of adjusting age, which is a maximum of one to two hours after that the eyes must rest.

As well as reading, you can apply the 20:20 technique, which is 20 minutes of taking, a 20-second break to see as far as 20 feet or about six meters.

The 'life style' affects. For this reason, minimize the use of gadgets and more outdoor activities by looking at this green view for motor development of the eye muscles to be maintained," he said.