Can you have a second lasik eye surgery?!
Question: Just wondering...because what happens if someone had one like 20 years ago, and then their eyesight loses again, they want another lasik eye surgery...
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Answers: Just wondering...because what happens if someone had one like 20 years ago, and then their eyesight loses again, they want another lasik eye surgery...
I NEED A PROFESSION TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION
Yes. What you are asking about is called Enhancement Surgery. An enhancement can be done as long as you have adequate corneal thickness remaining after your first surgery. When Lasik is performed, the shape of the cornea is flattened AND the cornea is thinned. Depending upon how thick your cornea was to start with and how much the cornea had to be thinned to achieve the amount of flattening needed to correct you prescription, you may or may not be able to have an enhancement. But, most people are able to have an enhancement. To know for sure, you will need to go in and find out how much change you have to correct this time and how thick your cornea is now. Your surgeon will be able to calculate this for you and tell you whether you are able to have an enhancement. Hope this helped.
In response to what was said by dog lover, this is simply not the case at all if patient selection is done correctly. If a patient is at least 18 and we can demonstrate that their prescription is stable, the chances of long term stability of a post operative prescription is quite high. In fact the great majority of patients, if they fit this criteria, do remain stable the remainder of their lives. As an example, I had my laser done 13 years ago and my prescription is EXACTLY the same now as it was 6 months after my surgery. And I am not an exception.
YES, I am 100 percent positive that you can have another surgery and it is perfectly safe. You often need to get these surgerys about every 5-10 years because as with glasses and contacts your eye sight and precriptions change overtime. If you are getting the surgery for the first time and do not want to get it again do not get it all becayse 5- 10 years from now you will be back to wearing glasses and contacts again anyway. Hope this helps!
Yes you can. I have customers that have that done.