Many patients ask about retinal detachment during their visits, so let me explain a little bit about it here. Retinal detachment is a blinding eye disease that carries the risk of blindness if not treated promptly. The patient group that ICL surgery faces is the high-risk group of retinal detachment – high myopia (here we are talking about axial myopia, i.e., high myopia caused by the eyeball getting bigger and the eye axis getting longer). Retinal detachment has a variety of pathogenesis, high myopia retinal detachment is often due to thinning of the retina, retinal holes, and then the vitreous fluid drilled into the hole, resulting in the retina “floating”, retinal detachment occurs. It is like a balloon, when you blow it bigger and bigger, it first becomes thin and then breaks. It should be noted that ICL surgery itself does not theoretically increase the likelihood of retinal detachment, in other words there is no correlation between whether you have ICL implantation or not, and whether you have retinal detachment or not.