It is very, very rare for the corneal flap to loosen after the laser eye surgery. In cases where loosening has occurred, it generally has happened overnight after the actual treatment. Certainly periods of longer than that, a week after the surgery, a month, three months after the surgery, these cases are extremely rare and generally the patient has undergone some form of heavy trauma to the eye, which has resulted in not only the flap moving but more than likely to cause the flap to move and would have resulted in a lot more damage to other structures in the eye at the same time…
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What Keeps The Corneal Flap In Position After LASIK Surgery? [video]
Straight after the laser eye surgery the flap is returned to its original position and it is held in place by an osmotic gradient force, so in theory the flap can still be adjusted using, for example, soft little micro-sponge to correct for any small positioning errors but it is very difficult already to move the flap around. …
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