title: [Current status of refractive surgery].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  An attempt is made to review the different surgical procedures for the treatment of the ocular refraction defects and their organs. Special emphasis is placed on the advantages and disadvantages of them, their principal indications and present situation in the surgeon's strategy when solving the problems which, in practice, are caused by these defects, as well as the possibilities that are being tested to solve the problems that presently have not satisfactory response.
  
  
  METHODS
  In addition to analyzing the bibliography, the procedures used by the author and his or her opinion on them, an attempt is made to group them based on the objective on which the intervention is centered to obtain the result desired.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Both the accuracy of the procedures as well as the complications that are presently derived from this surgery are discussed. Reasonable limits of each procedures, the reasons that make it obligatory to discontinue some of them and the problems that must be solved in the future to up-date each one of the techniques presently in use are commented on.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: García Sánchez
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D013508:Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D054140:Refractive Surgical Procedures