Borderline candidate - going for second opinion

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Surgeons deal with this exact issue on a daily basis, so your surgeon will likely be able to let you know exactly how borderline your dryness is and give you some answers on how it affects your candidacy for surgery.

If your eyes turn out to be too dry for surgery, your surgeon may recommend a number of treatments to boost them up to a more moist level that would allow you to proceed. Potential treatments include aggressive lubrication with drops and ointment, plugs in your tear ducts to keep your natural moisture on your eyes longer or perhaps the prescription dryness medication Restasis. It is also possible that your surgeon may recommend that you undergo a flapless procedures such as PRK, since this technique is friendlier on dry eyes.

Please let us know how things turn out.