Undercorrection and Assessing Visual Satisfaction Post-LASIK
Every patient is unique. As a result, every eye is unique and might respond to the healing process differently. Your individual treatment plan will be based on average healing responses of individuals who have undergone LASIK in the past. The software behind wavefrontguided LASIK continues to build each surgeon’s database of actual LASIK results, so that undercorrection is less likely to happen as surgeon experience grows. Therefore, having LASIK with a surgeon who has performed at least a few thousand LASIK procedures is the best way to prevent undercorrection.
The chances of an overcorrection or undercorrection being created tend to be higher when treating higher correction levels. Generally speaking, both undercorrection and overcorrection can be treated with a retreatment or enhancement procedure. Patients who have either very steep or thin corneas or those with high degrees of refractive errors might not be good candidates for enhancements. For this reason, it is important for patients to discuss their potential eligibility for enhancements or retreatments. In situations in which a retreatment or enhancement is not an option, contact lenses or glasses can be used to adjust the undercorrection or overcorrection successfully.
Multiple factors could affect a patient’s satisfaction following laser eye surgery including the following:
Whether you are farsighted, nearsighted, or have an astigmatism
The health and characteristics of your corneas
Age
The severity of your refractive error
The strength of your eyeglass prescription
Your own personal expectations
While LASIK can correct high degrees of nearsightedness, astigmatism, and farsightedness with success, young people who have mild astigmatism or nearsightedness typically experience the best outcomes.
The expectations you have prior to your laser vision surgery will also play a critical role in how satisfied you are with your procedure. It should be kept in mind that the goal of laser eye surgery is to decrease the amount you depend on glasses while helping you see relatively well without the need for corrective lenses. Results can vary from one person to another.
While most people who have had laser vision surgery report seeing better than they did with contact lenses or eyeglasses prior to the surgery, not everyone is the same.
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