An immediate next question arises in the minds of the potential LASIK patients, usually, after deciding to go for the LASIK eye surgery, is whether the results of LASIK is forever or not. For your information, the results of LASIK eye surgery last forever for the problems related to vision, such as astigmatism, farsightedness and nearsightedness.
LASIK Procedure and Results
LASIK procedure is performed with the cornea, by reshaping it according to the requirement, with respect to the prescription. The changes made on the cornea are permanent and eventually, the results of LASIK are also permanent.
After LASIK
Once the LASIK surgery is completed, the result is either completely successful and the expected outcome is achieved or the surgery is not completely successful and expected results are not achieved. If the surgery outcomes meet the expectation levels, there is nothing to worry. On the other hand, if the outcomes are not to the expected levels, there is a further procedure, called enhancement procedure, recommended by the surgery. The enhancement procedure is intended to correct the undercorrections resulted from the LASIK procedure.
In both these conditions, the refractive error of the eyes would be corrected by the LASIK and or enhancement procedure and eventually, LASIK enable the patient to achieve the expected results and these results are permanent.
Vision Problems In Future Irrespective of Eye Surgery
Right after LASIK, the outcome is good, if the surgery is successful and appropriate post surgery care is taken. After a long period of time, there may be chances that the vision may deteriorate. The primary cause for these vision problems is not in fact LASIK surgery, but the age itself. Like other parts of the body, the eyes also keep changing over the time. The most probable cause for deterioration of vision is Presbyopia, which means ‘aging of eyes’ in Greek.
Causes For Presbyopia
The primary cause for Presbyopia, aging related vision problem is the problem associated with the lens. The focusing capability of these lenses gets deteriorated because they get hardened with the progressing age of the eye of the human. The result is the problem reading and other vision demanding tasks. Eventually, the demand for eye glasses or contact lens keep increasing after 40s, though one has born with perfect eye vision and never used eye glasses for the life before.
In all other conditions, the refractive error related problems till then are resolved with successful LASIK surgery, unless new problems get developed.
So, technically, the results and outcomes of the LASIK surgery are permanent and in case any future vision related problems are developed, these are caused from only because of the age or other sub-organs of the eye, but because of the failure or incomplete LASIK surgery.