Are corneal thickness and stromal thickness the same?

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Corneal thickness is not same as stromal thickness. The cornea has got five layers like epithelium, Bowman's layer, stroma, Descemet's layer and endothelium. Stroma is the thickest layer of the cornea.

• Now, when we plan LASIK rule it should have least 500 micron of corneal thickness.
• We try to make a flap and then laser ablated corneal stroma during LASIK. Now, another rule is ablating the stroma. But, we must have 250 microns of residual stroma left after ablation if we can preserve 300 micron that is even better.
• We cannot measure your stromal thickness, but pentacam measure corneal thickness and after LASIK it will decrease and it will be less than 500 micron as in your case.

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• There is no direct method to measure stromal bed.

• Yes, we can guess. Do you have medical records of your LASIK procedure?

• If you can tell me the thickness of your corneal flap, then I can give you a rough estimation of your stromal bed.

• Usually flap is about 90 micron or 130 micron. Do you know what was the thickness of your flap?

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• Stromal thickness gives us an idea of corneal thickness.

• More stromal thickness means more strength. But, we already know corneal thickness 465 microns.

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• Corneal strength is mainly determined by the stromal bed.

• I think, your cornea is sufficiently thick and you need not to worry.

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• Your stromal thickness will range between 335 to 375 microns depending on flap thickness.

• 335 microns has a flap thickness of 130 microns and 375 microns has a flap thickness of 90 microns.

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