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Individually customized tapered CAIRS with variable volume, arc length, taper length, and gradient of taper were implanted. In total, 32 eyes of 29 patients with at least 1-year follow-up were included. Special double-bladed trephines and a CAIRS customizer template allowed the creation of individually customized CAIRS. Mean uncorrected distance visual acuity (UDVA) and spectacle-corrected distance visual acuity improved from 0.22 to 0.47 (P = 0.000) and from 0.76 to 0.89 (P = 0.001), respectively. Significant improvement was seen in K1, K2, Km, Kmax, topographic astigmatism, Q-value, sphere, cylinder, spherical equivalent, Root Mean Square (RMS), Higher Order Aberrations (HOA), and vertical coma (P &lt; 0.01, 0.05). There was no significant change in the width or height of CAIRS between 1 month and last visit on anterior-segment optical coherence tomography. Five eyes continued to remain at the same UDVA, 27 eyes had at least 2 lines, and 13 eyes had at least 3 or more lines improvement in UDVA. The maximum improvement in UDVA was 7 lines. A significant difference in flattening was obtained at different zones across the tapered CAIRS. Thus, differential flattening was achieved across the cone based on the customization plan. Personalized customization was possible for each cornea, unlike limited models of progressive-thickness synthetic segments. 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