If your concern is to know when to undergo the Lasik laser eye surgery, it is more associated with the age. Appropriate age for Lasik is very specific and usually, patients in the same range of age are only recommended by the eye surgeons.
Lasik and Qualification
Like any other surgery, Lasik surgery also can have more success rate, when it is performed on the qualified and right patient and less for others. The basic qualification for the patient is the age and the rest of the qualification factors follow.
Age Factor
The right age to undergo Lasik surgery is from 21 years to 40 years. Though surgery can also be performed above 40 years, the success rate is more for the patients, who are below 40 years. Some of the Lasik centers are more flexible in terms of age and allow the patients with ages from 18 to 45 years, provided other criteria is met.
When the patient undergoes Lasik at 18 years, the surgery can be performed form both distance vision and near vision for longest period in one’s life. And they have the capability to heal amazingly well. On the other hand, if one is operated after 40 and before 45, it is the earliest age that the same surgery can give better blended vision and it stands permanent, until the older age gets affected with cataracts. So, according to them, surgery with this age group gives better and blended vision both with distance and near vision, for longest period in their lives.
Other Factors
The patient is recommended to undergo Lasik surgery by the Lasik surgery surgeons, when the following conditions are fulfilled by the patient.
- Eye health is an important factor. If the eye to be operated is suffering from any kind of other eye related problem, then the complications will be more and so one has to wait until those problems are solved.
- Overall or general body health of the patient has to be good enough to receive the surgery and any kind of sensitivity in the body like blood pressure, blood sugar can create various problems to the general health and overall healing of the Lasik surgery and affects the outcomes.
- One more important technically and medically important factor is that the cornea should have sufficient thickness to undergo Lasik surgery, otherwise, surgeons do not recommend this surgery.
- The size of the pupil should not be very large.
All these factors are examined in detail, in screening test or pre-assessment of prescription of the potential and based on the personalized assessment report, the eye surgeon determines and recommends the procedure suitable and apt for the prescription.