Who Is Most at Risk of Having Dry Eyes After LASIK?
One Baylor College of Medicine study in Houston noted a significant risk of having dry eyes after LASIK particularly in people with higher degrees of myopia who required deeper removal of corneal tissue to reshape the eye.** Researchers also found that LASIK generally carries significant risk for dry eyes in people who did not have the problem previously, and that dry eye symptoms persisted in about 25 percent of LASIK patients six months after surgery. “Dry eye occurs commonly after laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) surgery in patients with no history of dry eye,” the Houston investigators said. “The risk of developing dry eye is correlated with the degree of preoperative myopia and the depth of laser treatment.
