Laser Eye Surgery: Q&A
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How Fast Does Eye Surgery Results Deteriorate over Time?
How fast does eye surgery results deteriorate over time?
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Stability of LASIK and Cataract Surgery
In most cases, the results do not deteriorate at all for both Cataract and LASIK surgery.
The eye does continue to age and so you may develop cataract after LASIK or the need for reading glasses just like someone who has not had LASIK. Less than 5% of LASIK patients need a touch up. This most often happens within the first year. Normally this can be treated with a LASIK enhancement.
Cataract surgery results are permanent and there should never be a...
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Stability of LASIK
LASIK does NOT deteriorate over time. this misperception is caused by people going to doctors who don't properly overcorrect if the person is younger than 30 and their myopia progresses so they need an enhancement. you need to go to a very experienced surgeon who has performed over 1,000 cases, then he or she will overshoot you if you're 25, so when you're 30 and your Rx is stable, your Rx will be zero, and you won't need an enhancement
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LASIK and other refractive surgery procedures
LASIK does not deteriorate with time in the way that you might be thinking. LASIK is a permanent change in the curvature of your cornea. It is performed in the corneal stroma, a location in the eye that does not regrow. Our eyes do naturally change throughout our lives and these changes occur regardless of having or not having LASIK. A person in his/her 40's can expect to need reading glasses at some times regardless of LASIK eye surgery. Cataracts will...
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Laser Vision Correction Results
The cornea tissue does not re-grow after laser treatments and the procedure is considered permanent. However, the eye does continue to age, so vision can change over time. This is especially true if laser vision correction is performed before the eye prescription has stabilized. For example, in younger patients their prescription usually won’t stabilize until 26-32 years old. After 40-45 years old, presbyopia (aging of the natural crystalline lens) becomes noticeable....
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New York Ophthalmologist
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How long does LASIK last?
Girls over the age of 18-20 and boys sometimes between 19 and 22 or 23 stop growing and their eyes stop changing. If laser surgery is surgery is done once the eyes stop growing, and modern technology, most people will have excellent distance vision until they get cataracts.
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