Your overall health is usually the best determining factor—not age. It is important to note that LASIK is designed to correct vision at one distance — so if you opt to have LASIK to correct your distance vision, you will likely still need to wear reading glasses after surgery.
Many patients elect to have monovision LASIK, correcting one eye for distance and one eye for reading. Use of the Internet or email is for your convenience only, and by using them, you assume the risk of unauthorized use. You may choose to opt-out of future email communications at any time. Presbyopia is the gradual loss of autofocusing power of the eye. Therefore, if you have LASIK above 40 years of age, you will have to consider options to help with focusing at different distances.
People of this age who have LASIK done can minimize wearing glasses, but glasses will likely be needed some of the time depending on their visual needs because of the problem of presbyopia. But when they get to 40 years of age and above, presbyopia will still appear. People with myopia and astigmatism, who are above 40 years of age, have a few options to deal with the focusing problems.
That would be when you are nearing the age when many people start to get cataracts. Generally speaking, many people start to get some cataract in their 60s, in which case, LASIK would give less 'return on investment' beyond about But in practical reality, most patients age 65 years and above would have some degree of cataract and would be better serve by a cataract operation. For patients age 40 years and above, most eye surgeons will advise mono-vision laser vision correction where the dominant eye is corrected to see well for near and the non- dominant eye is corrected to leave a small amount of residual myopia about 1.
The difference between the two eyes are deliberately kept at no more than 1. This is because, more likely than not, you would be affected by a mild degree of presbyopia and you may even have a mild degree of cataract.
Both of which, will potentially negate the benefits of LASIK since you may need reading glasses after or may even need cataract surgery sometime in the near future.
Hence, after determining how much presbyopia or cataract you have, you may consider the other options available. Having said that, at 46 years old, if you have no signs cataract at all and are open to having Monovision LASIK where one eye is corrected for distance and the other eye is corrected for near , LASIK may still be an amenable option for you.
These changes impact two things with respect to considering LASIK: The visual results that you can reasonably expect, and The potential that a different procedure may be a better choice An overview of the basic milestones of our eyes throughout life will help explain these changes. Growing up, our eyes grow just like our body does.
Most people who wear glasses or contacts got their first pair in school. Their prescription probably changed as their eyes changed sometimes more, sometimes less , until things settled down in their late teens or early twenties.
One of the least enjoyable parts being 40 or older is that our up-close vision changes no matter what our history has been.
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