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What is the Ideal Age to Have Lasik Eye Surgery?
asked 3 years ago by Seni13 in hk
Latest answer by Deepak Raja, MD
Question viewed 13,526 times
Tags: eyesight, vision correction
At what age should you be before you undergo Lasik Eye Surgery to correct your vision? Is there any sort of age requirement or age limit to have laser eye surgery?
9 answers to What is the Ideal Age to Have Lasik Eye Surgery?
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Ideal age to undergo LASIK eye surgery
I am often approached by people who are so frustrated with the hassle of contacts and glasses that they hastily request to undergo the vision correction procedure. My professional recommendation is for patients to wait until they are at least 21 years old to have any type of laser vision correction. The biggest reason to wait is that vision typically changes considerable during the teen years and even into early adulthood. If you were to have surgery and then experience major changes in...
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Ideal age for LASIK is when your vision is stable
As a general rule, we recommend that patients are at least 21 years of age for LASIK or PRK vision correction. Some patients have been treated younger than this with excellent and stable results and the minimum is probably 18. More important than age is the health of the eyes and the stability of the refraction. This means that the eyes are no longer changing for the previous year so that the treatment has a higher likelihood of being permanent.
One benefit of being younger is that...
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Jon Dishler, MD
Denver Ophthalmologist
Denver Ophthalmologist
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Refractive Surgery Perfect Age
I like to wait until patients are at least 21 and I make sure that their prescriptions are stable, so they can enjoy their results longer! It is difficult to pick an ideal age, but anywhere from the mid-20s to 40s is usually reasonable. I was 25 when I had mine done!
Deepak Raja, MD
Orlando Ophthalmologist
Orlando Ophthalmologist
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Age and LASIK
We operate on patients from 18 and beyond. There is no ideal age, but it is important to have a stable prescription and of course healthy eyes. The demographics in our practice have shifted over the years and now there are many patients in their low 20's having surgery, likely the sons and daughters of prior patients years back. Once you are over 40 or so, you will need to use readers which magnify for up close vision, as LASIK cannot fix this aging issue...
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18 is the minimum age for LASIK
A stable prescription and healthy eyes are a prerequisite for laser vision correction especially at this age.
Joseph W. King, MD
Vancouver Ophthalmologist
Vancouver Ophthalmologist
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Age limit for LASIK LASEK
FDA suggests 18 as the youngest age for LASIK. This is not a hard-and-fast rule, it's just because if you're younger than your Rx is PROBABLY NOT ALWAYS changing too quickly to allow the surgeon to accurately predict how you will wind up when stable, so he cannot figure out what # to enter into the laser.
That said, I have done LASEK on a very responsible young man who flew all the way to USA from Switzerland to see me, his Rx was pretty stable, and most importantly, he was VERY...
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The best age to have LASIK
My criteria for performing LASIK on a patient is pretty cut and dry. I operate on males a little later than females, as I feel men tend to continue growing for an additional year or so, compared to females. Ideally, after confirming the patients eyes are stable, I will perform LASIK on females over the age of 18(but I prefer 21) amd males over the age of 21(but I prefer 23). I still make my decisions case by case, and if a patient has really really bad nearsightedness, I will likely...
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Laser vision correction and age restrictions
In the US you have to be over the age of 21 to have laser vision correction surgery. Other than that there are no formal age restrictions. Young people in their early 20's should be sure their prescriptions are stable and their eyes aren't changing before having vision correction surgery. Those who are older than 65 should be sure that they don't have early cataracts before proceding with the surgery. Of course your surgeon should screen you for both of these.
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Christopher Starr, MD
New York Ophthalmologist
New York Ophthalmologist
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How old for LASIK?
We typically don't perform surgery on anyone under the age of 21 becuase their eyes are often still changing. But even for those patients over the age of 21, we want to make sure that their refraction (their contact lens or glasses prescription) is stable. I think mid-20s is ideal if your refraction is stable because you will be able to enjoy great vision up close and at a distance for many years.
The closer you get to the age of 40, the more likely you're going to need near...
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