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• Curvatural Myopia: It occurs when the curvature of the cornea or lens or both becomes more steep than normal. • Positional Myopia: It is when the lens inside the eye comes forward from its original position. • Index Myopia: It occurs when the refractive index of the lens increases due to various reasons, the common reason is nuclear cataract. • Pseudo Myopia: When there is excessive accommodation due to prolonged near work, transient blurring of vision in distance. MANAGEMENT Optical Management: The easiest, cheapest and commonest way to correct myopia is optical correction. • Spectacles glasses are most widely used remedy for it. Appropriate concave lens corrects myopia. • Contact lens are another solution to correct myopia as an optical correction. Though contact lenses are not widely used as spectacles but still is broadly wore across the world. It is a temporary solution to get rid of glasses. • Implantable contact lens (ICL): Implantable contact lens are another option to correct myopia. In this, ICL is placed inside the eye by an expert eye surgeon. Laser Treatment: Due to advancement of technology • Congenital Myopia is a type of myopia which is present since birth, though usually diagnosed in 2-3 years of age. • Simple or Development myopia is a commonest type of myopia. It is usually a physiological error and not associated with any other diseases. Its starts from young age and may persistently increase with the age of patient. • Pathological Myopia is also known as degenerative/ progressive myopia. It is rapidly progressive error which starts in childhood at 5-10 years of age and usually associated with degenerative changes in the Retina. Usually it is associated with heredity. The power is usually more than -5.00 diopter. • Acquired Myopia is a condition where myopia occurs due to some other factors like drug induced, post-keratitic, post- traumatic, pseudo-myopia or any other conditions. Based on Etiological Classifications, myopia can be sub classified into following: • Axial Myopia: It is due to increase in the axial length of the eye. Axial length is the anterio-posterior length of the eye the ball. It is the commonest form of myopia. DUE TO ADVANCEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY IN RECENT YEARS, LASIK LASER TREATMENT HAS NOW GAINED POPULARITY AMONG THE PEOPLE 46 VISION PLUS ARABIA EDITION