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All patients must be careful for the first week and avoid activities which could introduce foreign material into the eye, such as swimming, gardening, or using makeup.
As with other forms of surgery, recovery is a key component of the treatment process. Patients walk away a few moments after the surgery and are encouraged to take it easy for a few days, while very significant healing occurs. Most have functional vision and can resume normal activities and work within one to two days. However, it may take several weeks for the vision to fully stabilise.
For optimum healing, it is important that patients comply with instructions to use the prescribed eyedrops following the surgery.
Patients must also diligently attend all after-surgery appointments to ensure the healing and stabilisation is well monitored.
Refinement of the treatment
Occasionally the desired degree of correction might not be realised, this could be due to many things, for example the cornea's ability to repair its self means it replaces what was taken away. In your post-surgery consultations, you and Dr Delaney may decide to have a second treatment to refine the correction (called an enhancement), which will be just as easy as the first.
Most people do not require the additional surgery, but the higher the amount of correction required, the greater the possibility of an enhancement treatment being required.
As always, you and Dr Delaney together assess the need and make the decision about further surgery.
