Can kids do laser eye surgery

It is possible to have laser eye surgery if you’re under the age of 21 but you would need to have had the same prescription for two years. While you may have read about cases where younger people have had treatment, at Optegra, the youngest age we will consider for surgery is 18.

The short answer is that, if you are under the age of 18, it is unlikely you will be eligible for Laser Eye Surgery. It is rare for refractive errors to stabilise before adulthood, and typically those under the age of 18 do not yet have a stable enough prescription in order to undergo Laser Eye Surgery.

How young is too young for LASIK? According to the US Food and medicine Administration (FDA), LASIK is only for patients aged 18 and older. There are currently no lasers approved for anyone younger than 18. LASIK – clear vision without contacts or glasses!

But there’s no set age for LASIK. Most providers won’t perform LASIK on those under 18 because eyes tend to keep changing into early adulthood. But laser eye surgery has been performed on children (with severe vision problems) and octogenarians alike. These are outliers to most cases.

Is LASIK Eye Surgery Painful? Fortunately, LASIK eye surgery is not painful. Right before your procedure, your surgeon will place numbing eye drops into both of your eyes. While you may still feel a little bit of pressure during the procedure, you should not feel any pain.

Childhood and the Teens – Below 18 Years

Therefore, experts recommend that surgery for vision correction should not be performed until this age, since the benefit will be temporary and the patient will be saddled with glasses as soon as his or her eye prescription changes, due to the natural process of growth.