If you have one lazy eye can that surgecly be fixed?

Answer 1

It seems you are asking two questions.

A lazy eye is one that is "blind" or amblyopic. Doesn't mean it can't see, it just doesn't see well, and can't see well as far as that brain is concerned. There are lots of 'reasons' for lazy eyes.

A significant number of people with a lazy eye also have strabismus, or cross-eyes. One eye looks in when the other is looking sort of straight. When that happens, the brain has to pick. Which is the eye to use?
It picks one, the other one doesn't see because the brain says it can't. Anatomically the eye, the lazy one, is normal in every respect. Its message just isn't used.

If one has surgery for the cross eyes, the eyes are moved around so that they both point in the same direction at the same time. A few muscles are taken off and moved forward or back and then re sutured to the eyeball.

When that eye was looking off yonder, while the other was working for real, its image was 'gone'. The brain said that the image straight ahead doesn't exist and this becomes a blind area or a scotoma. It's called a suppression scotoma as the brain is suppressing the image.

When the eyes are surgically moved forwards, that scotoma has to be moved beyond straight ahead so that the suppression scotoma isn't still straight ahead Or the eye will drift back towards the nose again. So it's usually over corrected at surgery so it'll drift straight while the brain figures out what the heck is going on here!? and the eye now has similar landmarks for ones visual field, so the sensory adjustments start taking place. Eyes end up straight with normal movement and tracking and....

The sight in that lazy eye can be "helped", but it won't ever be as good as the 'normal' eye, due to the suppression. But sometimes they get pretty close.

So the question can lazy eye be surgically repaired? is, it depends. Vision? answer is nope.
Eye alignment? yep

Answer 2

Do you mean lazy eye (amblyopia) or turned eye (strabismus)? Lazy eye means that the eye doesn't see well even with glasses, turned eye means that the two eyes don't point in the same direction.

Strabismus can be treated with surgery, lazy eye is not treated with surgery, it is treated by correcting refractive error, patching the good eye and exercises. Treatment needs to be started before age 6 to be successful.

Sometimes lazy eye is caused by strabismus and the treatment will include surgery to straighten the eyes before doing patching.

Answer 3

it's called amblyopia and, yes, there is a surgery

if diagnosed in childhood, it is correctable - key is to catch it before the age of 10 - after that it's hard to correct without surgery

look for an opthamologist who specializes in amblyopia and strabismus