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Corneal Refractive Therapy The last treatment to get rid of your glasses or contact lenses was the laser treatment, also known as the LASIK treatment. But with the help of several eye specialists, we now have a revolutionary therapy which is an alternative to LASIK, known as the corneal refractive therapy. The corneal refractive therapy cost is also minimum compared to that of LASIK. The CRT is a therapy which works on reshaping your cornea which leads to a clear and effective vision without any surgery. The therapy is best suitable for the people who are regular in touch of dirt, sports men or the person is surviving from short eyesight. The corneal refractive therapy works while one is sleeping with the help of corneal reshaping lenses . You need to wear the lenses and sleep every night. When you wake up, remove the lenses and see the effect in just first night. Though it takes many such nights to get through the therapy with ultimate results. One must make sure that he

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Corneal Refractive TherapyThe last treatment to get rid of your glasses or contact lenses was the laser treatment, also known as the LASIK treatment. But with the help of several eye specialists, we now have a revolutionary therapy which is an alternative to LASIK, known as the corneal refractive therapy. The corneal refractive therapy cost is also minimum compared to that of LASIK.

The CRT is a therapy which works on reshaping your cornea which leads to a clear and effective vision without any surgery. The therapy is best suitable for the people who are regular in touch of dirt, sports men or the person is surviving from short eyesight.

The corneal refractive therapy works while one is sleeping with the help of corneal reshaping lenses. You need to wear the lenses and sleep every night. When you wake up, remove the lenses and see the effect in just first night. Though it takes many such nights to get through the therapy with ultimate results. One must make sure that he continues the therapy every night till he receives the ultimate result. Because if even one sitting is missed, the cornea would come to its original shape again.

The corneal refractive therapy is carried out in three phases. The first phase will include the tests of your eyes. The doctor would first measure your eye and the cornea size so that a proper lens can be made accordingly. This takes minimum 45 minutes. When the lenses are ready, they ate than fixed in

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your eyes for a one night trial. The next day early in the morning you need to visit the optometrist to remove the lens and check the progress.

If the result of the one night is on a positive track, the process is carried out for 2 weeks. When the weeks are over, another evaluation is done and the final lenses are prescribed.