The LASIK Flap Never Heals
In 2005, researchers at Emory Eye Center, Emory University School of Medicine published their study of human eye bank corneas, which demonstrates the strength of the post-LASIK cornea at the flap interface is only 2% of normal corneal tensile strength.
Schmack I, Dawson DG, McCarey BE, Waring GO 3rd, Grossniklaus HE, Edelhauser HF. Cohesive tensile strength of human LASIK wounds with histologic, ultrastructural, and clinical correlations. J Refract Surg. 2005 Sep-Oct; 21(5):433-45.