Strabismus Surgery Doctors in Jordan

Strabismus correction is a surgical procedure in which the surgeon adjusts the tension of the muscles that move the eyeball so the visual axes of both eyes become as parallel as possible. One muscle is tightened or another weakened by changing where it attaches to the wall of the eye, which alters the force pulling the eye in a given direction. The operation is carried out through the transparent membrane covering the white of the eye. The eyeball itself is not opened and it is not removed from its socket, as many patients imagine, and no laser is involved. The cornea, the lens and the retina are not touched, which is why the surgery does not treat short-sightedness, long-sightedness or astigmatism; a patient who needed glasses before the operation will still need them afterwards. Suitability is decided by a full eye examination that measures the deviation in different directions of gaze and assesses muscle movement, visual acuity in each eye, and the presence of amblyopia or double vision. Any refractive error is corrected with glasses first and amblyopia is treated if present, because some deviations improve with glasses alone and need no surgery at all. In children the procedure is performed under general anaesthesia; in adults it may be done under local or general anaesthesia. The limits must be clear before consent is given. **Surgery straightens the position of the eye but does not by itself treat a lazy eye; an amblyopic eye will still see poorly after it has been aligned if the amblyopia was not treated in time.** Nor is perfect alignment from a single operation guaranteed. **A small residual deviation may remain or a deviation may appear in the opposite direction, and more than one procedure is sometimes needed to reach an acceptable result. This is an expected possibility, not a surgical error.** In adults the operation is not purely cosmetic: it can relieve double vision and widen the field of single binocular vision.