Lasik After Cataract Surgery. In fact if you have refractive cataract surgery you get the best of both worlds. While you will have thinner corneas than someone who has not undergone lasik cataract surgery treats a different part of your eye than lasik.
Cataract surgery involves taking the cloudy lens out of the eye and replacing it with a plastic implant. When selecting the appropriate replacement lens implant dr. No that s not true.
Post cataract surgery before lasik can even be considered as a possibility after cataract surgery it is important that the patient s eyes have fully healed.
There is more finesse with prk and lasik than there is with lens exchange or piggybacking dr. Corneal refractive surgery for small amounts of residual error or to finesse the results prk or lasik may be the best choice. The lasik procedure reshapes the cornea which is in the clear surface of your eye over your pupil and lens. Basically lasik surgery treats the cornea and cataract surgery treats the lens of the eye.
