I have a small cylindrical correction of -0.5 (90o) in the eye that now needs surgery for cataracts, and a much larger correction of -1.75 (80o) in the other one, which will need surgery in a few years.
From my limited googling, it seems there are aspheric IOLs and toric IOLs but no aspheric toric IOLs. Is this correct?
If so, for the -0.5 cylindrical correction, would I benefit more from correcting the astigmatism with the IOL, or from correcting any spherical aberration?
What if my eyes don't have enough spherical aberration to be worth correcting? An ideal spherical-surface lens has spherical aberration, but my eye isn't perfectly spherical (if only because it is partly cylindrical), so either it has more spherical aberration than normal, or possibly it has less; I don't have a clue. How is it decided that an eye has spherical aberration, and are there different grades of asphericity available in IOLs?
For the other eye (cyl -1.75/80o), when the operation is ultimately done, I assume that a toric IOL would definitely be more important than an aspheric IOL? Or, given that there's a good chance I'd be using glasses anyway, would one opt to leave the cylindrical correction to the glasses?
I hope these are not overly esoteric questions. I want to be prepared for my next visit...