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Six Guidelines For LASIK Surgery

Laser eye surgery isn't for everyone. here are six general guidelines for determining if LASIK or PRK is for you.

- You may also obtain a personalized evaluation of your candidacy for LASIK through our online LASIK screening.- Your eyes must be healthy. If you have any condition that can affect how your eyes respond to surgery or heal afterwards, you must wait until that condition is resolved.

-You must be an adult. By law, certain procedures require you to be 18; others, 21. Younger patients can be treated as an exception.

- You must have stable vision for at least a year. Many young adults experience changes in their eyeglass and contact lens prescriptions in the teenage years. Vision stabilizes most often sometime in their 20s. Usually, it is nearsightedness gradually becoming worse, but there may be other changes as well. They are not good candidates until their eyes have "settled down" into one prescription.

- Your doctor can tell you whether your prescription is stable.

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