LASIK has been around long enough that it is now judged as a safe and effective procedure. However, with the natural aging process, it’s possible a patient will need a touch-up LASIK procedure to fine tune his or her vision in the future, or may need reading glasses later in the life.
“Aging changes occurs within 100 percent of the population,” according to Dr. Kerry Solomon, director of the Carolina Eyecare Research Institute in Charleston, SC “…Occasionally things will change in [eye] shape and size.”
Those eye changes also include cataracts, the clouding of the natural lens of the eye. LASIK does not increase the incidence of cataracts – the surgery affects only the cornea, not the lens of the eye.
With or without LASIK, we all develop cataracts… and their occurrence is unrelated to LASIK.
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