Age is very important factor for any human being as it marks plenty of milestones, such as working, voting, retiring, driving and many more. However, there is no specific age restriction, especially upper age limit for the LASIK eye surgery.
Generalized Age Limit
Generalized age limit to undergo the LASIK surgery is in between 20 years to 40 years and it is not hard border, but the eye surgeons are flexible enough to explore and discover the unique eye conditions of the people and consider other eligibility factors, before deciding and recommending the LASIK procedure to the patient. So, the age of the patient definitely influences the candidacy of LASIK, however, it does not draw an absolute boundary, by no means.
Lower Age Limit
Usually, 18 years is the specific lower age limit, however, most commonly surgeons wait for two more years to ensure that the eyesight has been reached to its stable state. On the other hand, there are also instances, where younger than 18 years also got eligible for the LASIK surgery, in very rare cases, like extreme nearsightedness.
Upper Age Limit
The upper age limit, though not restricted to it, is 40 years. The advancement of technology allows the patients to be eligible for the LASIK surgery, even after forties. It is because the candidacy for LASIK is just not limited to a single factor, age, but many other factors, such as the general health and eye health on an overall. The profession of the patient also stands as an important factor to influence the candidacy for the LASIK surgery.
LASIK patients can be even after 40s. In such cases, the concern is not the age, but the actual source of the problems associated with the eyesight of the patients. As long as the source of the eyesight is the refractive error, there is quite more probability that the candidate is eligible for the surgery, but if it is other than the refractive error, the treatment proposed would be different.
So, age stands as only one of the factors that influences the overall candidacy to undergo the LASIK surgery, but not the whole and sole deciding factor to determine the candidacy.