Can I get laser eye surgery for long sightedness?

We can treat long-sightedness, or hypertropia, with LASIK surgery or PRK surgery.1These are very successful surgeries2. Unfortunately, you can’t yet treat hypertropia with SMILE.

We’d encourage you to come in for an assessment and see if you can have our laser surgery.

If you want to see if you’re a good candidate to have eye laser surgery, then we encourage you to take the suitability test. It will take a few minutes of your time and give you a good idea if you can take the next step into getting better vision without glasses and contact lenses.

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Dr Benjamin Au
Cataract Surgeon and General Ophthalmologist

Dr Au is a registered ophthalmologist in Australia and Singapore, originally from Toronto, Canada. Dr Au performs refractive surgery at Eye Laser Specialists. He is proficient in Mandarin and Cantonese.