WVLEC Services — LASIK
Post-Operative Enhancement
Every patient and surgeon wants to achieve perfect vision correction with one surgical procedure. Unfortunately it is more difficult to accurately predict results with a large refractive change than with a small refractive change. Most of the required refractive change was completed with the first surgery, but because the first surgery did not achieved the desire result, you now need a small amount of additional change.
It is not unusual to follow with a second procedure after the first has healed. This additional procedure is called an enhancement With LASIK and PRK, most surgeons wait three to six months after the first surgery before performing an enhancement procedure, however there are exceptions.
Intrastromal Corneal Ring Segments (Permanent Contacts) require significantly less waiting time. If your surgeon wants to perform an enhancement, ask why he wants to do the enhancement in the timeframe suggested.