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[xattt]

Vitrectomy would be what you are looking for. It’s fairly drastic as you are pulling vitreous humour from the eye in order to get rid of the floaters.

[jcims → xattt]

There’s also laser vitreolysis that’s substantially less invasive.

I’m sure there are more authoritative links but i picked this one because i thought it said ‘burningeye.com’ at first:

https://www.brueningeye.com/laser-floater-removal

[pasc1878 → jcims]

And that laser one is the one that there is an issue with.

In the UK my doctors and NHS notes say there is no evidence that this works.

The removal of the vitreous humour does work but the doctors at Moorfields, the top UK eye hospital, do not recommend it as it has what they say is a high risk of making things worse. They will do it but you have to be really really certain that the floaters are impossible to live with.

[jcims → pasc1878]

The one thing that I believe it is successful for is if people have floaters that are suspended directly in their fovea by adhesions to other parts of the eye. They use the laser to cut the ’ligaments’ so it can float away.

I’m not sure ‘breaking up’ floaters would even be desirable, they are still going to be in there making visual noise.