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With approximately 1.2 million procedures each year, extraocular muscle surgery is the third most common eye surgery in the United States.
* Eye muscle surgery typically corrects strabismus and includes the following:
o Loosening / weakening procedures
+ Recession involves moving the insertion of a muscle posteriorly towards its origin.
+ Myectomy
+ Myotomy
+ Tenectomy
+ Tenotomy
o Tightening / strengthening procedures
+ Resection
+ Tucking
+ Advancement is the movement of an eye muscle from its original place of attachment on the eyeball to a more forward position.
o Transposition / repositioning procedures
o Adjustable suture surgery is a method of reattaching an extraocular muscle by means of a stitch that can be shortened or lengthened within the first post-operative day, to obtain better ocular alignment.
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