Will a post-LASIK PRK fix ghosting?

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One and a half year after LASIK surgery I suffer from a vexing ghosting effect on my left eye. There is a scar at the top side of my flap. My doctor recommends a PRK in order to „fix“ the ghosting, but I‘m very concerned. Are there patients who also did a PRK after LASIK? Did it really help fixing or mitigating the ghosting?

Emil William Chynn, MD, FACS, MBA · Answer

I actually treated a very nice younger man from Switzerland who flew into see me, as he did an incredible amount of research and somehow figured out I have more experience with LASEK over LASIK than any other surgeon in the US perhaps. It sounds like you have HOA. The only laser brand in the USA that can simulate your vision post-PRK/LASEK enhancement of your prior LASIK is VISX, which is not J&J and was AMO, but we surgeons still call it VISX. You need a PreVue lens, where I would program the laser to treat your eye(s), then slot in a plastic lens instead of your eye. You then hold it up to see exactly how you would see post-enhancement. If it gets rid of most of your ghosting, you proceed. If it doesn't, you don't. You would need intraop MMC or you might scar btw. You can email info@ParkAvenueLASEK.com for a remote second opinion. If you fly into NYC, the cost of the second opinion is also $500, and the cost of a PreVue lens is $500 per eye. The guy I helped from Geneva later attended Harvard Business School and we have kept in touch as friends, which is nice:)

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