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It is not only possible to replace a displaced flap but essential. If your flap becomes displaced it should be repositioned within 24 hours for best results.
Displaced flaps are very infrequent and can be repaired fairly easily. Be careful to avoid contact sports and rubbing your eyes for a few weeks after the surgery.
if it's within a week postop, this is relatively easy, your surgeon needs to refloat it and replace it, make sure there isn't any epithelium growing under if over a week it becomes more problematic, often there is epithelial ingrowth which is bad, or striae or wrinkles in the flap which can cause double vision if you have bad striae, you will need your flap sutured down tight to fix this, and this tight suturing can cause induced astigmatism and poor vision this is why i switched from LASIK and IntraLase to LASEK and epiLASEK, as the latter are Advanced Surface Ablations that do NOT require ANY cutting or flap, so make your problem IMPOSSIBLE TO HAPPEN IN THE FIRST PLACE good luck, and go to a very well-qualified surgeon who has completed a CORNEA AND REFRACTIVE FELLOWSHIP if your situation is bad enough to require suturing
Not everyone gets perfect vision after LASIK surgery. Overall, about 5% of people need some sort of fine-tuning or enhancement. This is usually done at about 3 months after the initial procedure. In general, it is an easier and safer procedure than the first one because the majority of risk in...
There are several falacies regarding the lasers ability to correct astigmatism that carry over from our early days with Lasik and PRK in the 1990's. An astigmatism is, essentially, a minor warpage or uneven shape in the human cornea. As a result of the individual variation of this unevenness...
Ulcers and trauma to the cornea can sometimes form scars if they penetrate beyond the layers of the epithelium. These scars will most likely be permanent since the inner layers of the cornea do not recycle like the outer epithelial layer. These superficial scars are generally not a...