08/04/2026
Prospective LASIK patients: Please read this carefully.
LASIK surgeons all know that the public has become increasingly skeptical of LASIK. They've watched their LASIK volumes fall year after year. They have no one to blame but themselves for pushing such a harmful surgery on the public for nearly 3 decades. These days, everybody has heard about problems with LASIK, so people aren't falling for the hype. You'd think these surgeons would change course and return to the practice of medicine -- healing the sick -- but no, they're doubling down and promoting an even more dangerous surgery, EVO ICL implantation.
In this new article, a LASIK surgeon publicly acknowledged something the LASIK industry has spent decades downplaying: Laser ablation has a cumulative negative impact on:
• Corneal strength
• Corneal nerve architecture
• Ocular surface health (dry eye)
He admits that because of this growing understanding, many patients he would have treated with laser just a few years ago are now being steered toward EVO ICLs instead. Why? Because "avoiding corneal alteration may offer advantages for long-term ocular health". ”Once corneal tissue is permanently removed, it cannot be replaced." There is no “undo” button.
This is not an activist claim. This is a practicing LASIK surgeon writing in a major ophthalmology publication (Healio, August 2026).
It's a pattern with these surgeons -- When the problems with one technique or technology are exposed, they move on to the next harmful, unnecessary surgery.
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While laser-based procedures continue to deliver excellent refractive outcomes in appropriate candidates, we now better understand the cumulative impact of laser ablation on corneal strength, nerve architecture and ocular surface health. Because of this expanding insight into corneal biomechanics, a...