# Is it possible to thicken the coreas? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 30, 2016, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-thicken-the-coreas/764521 "2016-08-30T23:14:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Laudenum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Laudenum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laudenum)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-thicken-the-coreas/764521/1 "2016-08-30T23:14:18Z")
Got turned down for laser eye surgery due to thin corneas - is there any way to thicken them? Or am I speccy-foureyes for life? ---
**Author:** ![Vicsage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e68b1a/32.png) [@Vicsage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vicsage)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-thicken-the-coreas/764521/2 "2016-08-30T23:56:34Z")
There’s a newer procedure where the insert a corrective lens underneath the cornea that may work for you. Its even reversible. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-thicken-the-coreas/764521/3 "2016-08-31T01:39:53Z")
[QUOTE=Laudenum] Is it possible to thicken the coreas? [/QUOTE] Depends. Are they bloke coreas, or chick? ---
**Author:** ![Vicsage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e68b1a/32.png) [@Vicsage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vicsage)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-thicken-the-coreas/764521/4 "2016-08-31T01:52:08Z")
Phakic IOLs ---
**Author:** ![turner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@turner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/turner)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-thicken-the-coreas/764521/5 "2016-08-31T02:34:52Z")
> [@Vicsage](#): > > There’s a newer procedure where the insert a corrective lens underneath the cornea that may work for you. Its even reversible. I had this done 5 years ago and have not regretted it. Mine wasn’t because of thin corneas but really bad eyes. Its expensive–I think it was $5000 for both eyes, and I had complications (one eye “leaked” and had to be stitched), but I’d do it again in a heart beat. The surgery is pretty painless and you are up the whole time, and I’m a baby with pain. I was even doing a Dirty Harry dialog with my doctor–who I found out half way through the second eye was a fan. I can’t recommend it enough. The only down side is my eyes were so bad that with the correction, I need readers and I miss what I used to call microscope vision, that is, with my glasses off, I could see very small features–like the tiniest writing, if I got close enough. Almost like I had a microscope. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-thicken-the-coreas/764521/6 "2016-08-31T13:00:24Z")
> [@Vicsage](#): > > There’s a newer procedure where the insert a corrective lens underneath the cornea that may work for you. Its even reversible. It’s called intra-ocular implant. It’s basically the same procedure they do with cataract patients, it was approved about 8+ years ago for cosmetic procedures. Should be priced similarly to Lasik. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-thicken-the-coreas/764521/7 "2016-08-31T20:36:26Z")
A truly enormous amount of dirt, dumped on the DMZ and then spread around, should do it. As for a cornea - I believe there’s no practical way to make it thicker. Material can be removed, or a separate lens can be added. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-thicken-the-coreas/764521/8 "2016-08-31T21:03:14Z")
If you wait until you get cataracts, your insurance will pay for a big chunk of lens implants. I got the bifocal kind, after wearing glasses for 50 years.