subject: Indifferent age? Correct your vision with LASIK eye surgery [print this page] It 'true that LASIK can be a person to remove dependence on glasses and contact lenses. You can correct a range of refractive errors like nearsightedness, farsightedness and astigmatism. However, LASIK is not for everyone. There are some conditions that might preclude LASIK in case of an individual patient. Age is a factor in determining whether a patient is a good candidate for LASIK or not taken.
It is a known fact that people experience a constant changein vision throughout adolescence and sometimes not until the mid to late 20s. That is, the refraction stabilizes typically around the age of 18 years. For nearsighted people, the benchmark somewhere between mid-late 20s. LASIK before that age is nothing but a futile attempt to achieve better visual acuity, as the patient, however, require further surgery when the prescription stabilizes.
A preoperative examination performed before the age of 18 years could result inMeasurement errors and then adjusted by a correction LASIK. Patients with higher degrees of myopia or astigmatism should defer the surgery a bit 'more than others generally until the age of 21 years or so. In essence, you must have had a stable prescription for at least two years, and only then, you should schedule a LASIK surgery. Custom LASIK if you want to go the minimum age is the same as in conventional LASIK.
There is no age limitfor LASIK surgery. Even a 50 or 60 years may opt for LASIK person. The point is that LASIK can very well correct the refractive error of myopic patients in all stages of life of the patient, provided that the patient's eyes are otherwise healthy. In other words, it is clear forward LASIK distant vision to any person, regardless of age. However, the age-related deterioration of vision can still occur. For example, almost all suffer from presbyopia (or short arm syndrome) aged40th Presbyopia, the loss of accommodation power of the lens. Therefore, people usually need reading glasses after the age of 40 years.
