Your eye doctor may recommend covering one of your eyeglass lenses with tape or a patch. This approach is similar to wearing an eyepatch. However, it’s often more comfortable because you cover the glass lens and not your eye.

Prism eyeglass lenses bend light as it enters your eyes and redirects it to the correct place in each retina. Your retinas send signals that your brain uses to create images. The prisms help your brain unite the two images into one.

For mild strabismus, your provider may stick adhesive prisms to the eyeglass lens of the eye with the weakest vision (your nondominant eye). Your provider can change these prisms as your vision improves. For severe double vision, you may have eyeglasses that have ground-up prisms in each lens. Your eyeglasses won’t look different, but they may be thicker and heavier.

Eye alignment surgery to correct strabismus can help if you have debilitating double vision or don’t want to wear heavy prism eyeglasses. Depending on your unique needs, our highly skilled strabismus surgeon may tighten, loosen or move certain eye muscles. Surgery improves muscle function and eye alignment.

This outpatient procedure may take place under local anesthesia (we give you a sedative and numb your eye) or general anesthesia (you sleep through the procedure). We have deep expertise performing this complex surgery.