Several studies have reported that LASIK surgery results can be affected adversely by warm temperatures and high humidity. One Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center study showed that an increased number of people required follow-up procedures if the temperature and humidity were not controlled for properly.
A recent study has concluded that LASIK eye surgery is now safer than contact lens wear in long-term safety. While this news is nothing new it does provide food for thought for the millions of people who are currently using contact lenses.
While LASIK is the most popular form of surgical vision correction today with over a million Americans undergoing the procedure each year, that might change in the future. Implantable Contact Lenses, such as Visian ICL, might be the next wave of vision treatments. Unlike LASIK, Implantable Contact Lenses can treat high amounts of near-sightedness, dry eyes, thin corneas, and possibly even patients with diseases such as keratoconus.
In a comparative study of patients who underwent LASIK and/or Visian ICL it was discovered that the Visian ICL not only compared favorably to LASIK surgery but in fact exceeded the results of LASIK surgery in many categories.
Patients who were in the 8-12 range of myopia were seen to favor Visian over LASIK in a majority of cases. While LASIK has been clinically approved for near-sighted prescriptions as high as -14.00, many doctors avoid LASIK in prescriptions higher than -8.00 or -9.00. Cases of higher near-sightedness, occasionally have problems with dry eye, glare, haloes, and even more serious complications such as corneal ectasias or loss of best corrected vision.