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• Our Medical Staff
  • Tijuana
    • Dr. Antonio Méndez Gutiérrez
    • Dr. Antonio Méndez Noble
    • Dr. Victor M. Martin del Campo
    • Dra. Martha Gutiérrez Ochoa
    • Dra. Vilma Valdéz Kim
    • Dra. Yolanda Cervantez Bastida
  • Mexicali
    • Dr. Antonio Méndez Gutiérrez
    • Dr. David Méndez Noble
• Laser Surgeries
  • Prior to...
  • Lasik
  • Conductive Keratoplasty
  • Photorefractive Keratomy (PRK)
  • Lasek
• Ocular Surgeries
  • Catarat
  • Intracorneal Rings (Intacs)
  • Pterygium
  • Intraocular Lenses
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Myopia (Nearsightedness)

A person with myopia is able to see things at close-range, but long-range vision is blurry. With this refractive deficiency, images are focused before they reach the retina, most of the time this is caused by an increase in the eye's axial length.

It is a refractive deficiency in which the cornea is too long.

Nowadays, nearsightedness can be corrected by different procedures such as frame glasses, contact lenses or laser surgeries. The laser surgical procedures able to correct nearsightedness with excellent results, helping patients to be free of frame glasses or contact lenses are: Lasik, and Photorefractive Keratomy (PRK) and Lasek.