When it comes to myopia surgery, some people will always laugh and say, “When is the doctor doing myopia surgery, I’ll do the surgery.” So, is it true that doctors don’t do myopia surgery? In fact, it is not that doctors do not do myopia surgery, there are many doctors around me who have done myopia surgery, just that you do not know it, like a very famous doctor in our ophthalmology community who does refractive surgery, the doctor has done refractive surgery himself. There are many doctors, nurses and technicians around me who have done refractive surgery, including many within our hospital. You may also ask, “Then why do so many doctors still wear glasses?” Actually, myopia surgery is not for everyone. It is subject to a strict pre-operative examination, and cannot be done if it does not meet the requirements. In addition, whether to do myopia surgery also depends on personal wishes. The eye hospital has been doing it since ’93, and there are probably hundreds of thousands of cases, and the vast majority of people are doing very well, with very few more serious complications. In 2009, the American Journal of Ophthalmology published an article on the first ten years of refractive surgery, and the final result was that the satisfaction rate reached 95.4%, which is a very high rate. What are the main types of myopia surgery? Full Femtosecond surgery: Instead of cutting off the epithelial layer and creating a flap, a convex lens is created and separated from the corneal stroma by using a femtosecond laser in two scans of different depths, and then a small incision of 2 to 4 mm is made to remove it. Semi-femtosecond surgery: The laser is used to create a flap with a femtosecond device and then the excimer laser is used to “ablate” the corneal stroma. Semi-femtosecond preserves the structural integrity of the cornea, resulting in less pain and faster recovery, and can be performed on high myopia of about 1200 degrees. Smart all-laser surgery: It retains the safety performance of TransPRK surgery and introduces SPT technology that makes the cornea smoother after surgery, bringing more ease and comfort and higher visual quality to myopia treatment while ensuring safety. ICL lens implantation: A very soft artificial lens, thinner than the diameter of a hair, is implanted into the front of the lens, like a contact lens in the eye. It can treat 50 degrees to 1800 degrees of myopia and is suitable for patients born with a thin cornea. As for which surgery to choose, it is a judgment call based on the doctor’s recommendation after a rigorous pre-operative examination, and the surgery that suits you is the better one.