Tired of wearing glasses every day, one man opted for the liberation of laser eye surgery, only to have his face mask — that thing you also have to wear every day — catch on his healing cornea.

The 26-year-old patient had just undergone femtosecond laser-assisted in-situ keratomileusis (LASIK) in both eyes, with the well-centred LASIK flaps confirmed on slit-lamp examination.