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Is there a surgery to correct a lazy eye?

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Yes but....: Binocular vision is usually established by the age of 18 months. After that age surgery has only a cosmetic value.

Answered 7/4/2012

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Yes and no: Lazy eye, or amblyopia is a condition where the brain begins turning off one eye because the image is different/fuzzy. It may be improved by non-surgical means if the eyes line up correctly, but it often leads to cross eyes. Surgery can help re-align the eyes as part of treatment, but if the problem has gone on too long, the amblyopia can persist. At that point, surgery's value is cosmetic

Answered 8/1/2017

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