Can my sight get worse after Laser Eye Surgery?
Once you’ve recovered from Laser Eye Surgery, the changes made to your cornea by the laser are permanent and completely stable. The eye quickly adapts to your new vision.
However, it is possible that your eye sight will worsen after Laser Eye Surgery due to an unavoidable part of the body’s ageing process.It’s important to point out this is not because the effects of Laser Eye Surgery are temporary.
Unfortunately, as we all get older our eyes, along with various other parts of the body, change in unfavorable ways. One way to put it would be all the hard parts get soft and all the soft parts get hard.
A well understood explanation for the changes to our eyesight is Presbyopia—a problem that starts to affect all of us between the ages of 45-65.
This makes it important not to promise Laser Eye Surgery patients that they will never need glasses again—due to the natural effects of Presbyopia, you may need glasses in the future.
The good news is that Laser Eye Surgery can be used to compensate for these small changes by having a simple adjustment or enhancement procedure.
Can I Go Blind After Laser Eye Surgery?
The chance of going blind from Laser Eye Surgery in the hands of an expert laser eye surgeon using the best technology in the region of 1 in 5 million. Strictly, the answer to this question (in theory) is yes, but for all practical considerations it is extremely unlikely. In fact, Laser Eye surgery is one of the safest medical procedures carried out.