The Risks of Having Lasik Eye Surgery Problems

The probability of LASIK eye surgery problems went from 5% in the late-90s to less than 1% today. And technology isn't necessarily the reason.

Ophthalmology experts say the main reason for this is that a surgeon's success rate has been shown to naturally rise the more LASIK procedures he performs.

Complications approach zero for many qualified surgeons now that laser eye surgery is one of the most commonplace clinic based procedures. All an experienced surgeon has to do to achieve a 100% success rate is to carefully select candidates for surgery.

IK Eye Surgery Problems - Can They Be Fixed?

Say you're one of the very, very few that do experience complications after laser vision correction surgery. Will it be hard for you to have the problem fixed?

No. Even when the unlikely happens and LASIK eye surgery problems occur, they can be fixed by re-treatment or enhancement. Almost all the best surgeons offer a guarantee that, if you experience complications within a year after surgery, any additional treatments will be given to you absolutely free.

With the expertise available in America today, it will be rare indeed for LASIK surgery to result in permanent, substantial vision loss so that you're eyesight with lenses becomes poorer than before treatment.

The only way this can happen is if the person who performs your laser eye surgery lacks the credentials to do so. To make sure that your eyes are safe, go only to a Board-certified eye surgeon.

IK Eye Surgery Problems - How Can Technology Help?

Aside from picking the right surgeon, another good way of troubleshooting laser eye surgery problems is by selecting the kind of procedure you'll have done.

One of the most common problems with LASIK a few years back had to do with the cutting of the corneal flap. In LASIK, the eye surgeon creates a flap, after which he reshapes the cornea with a laser, and then returns the flap back to sort of serve as a natural bandage.

It used to be that the only way to do this would be using a microkeratome, which is a very fine metal blade with suction. If the flap is cut too thickly or too thinly, or if the flap wrinkles when it is returned, problems occur. But today, even the cutting of the corneal flap can be done with a laser.

The technology for flap creation via laser is marketed under the brand name IntraLase. Although a skilled surgeon can achieve an almost 100% success rate with a microkeratome, studies show that using a laser to create the flap has nearly eliminated complaints among LASIK patients.

Using a laser on the corneal flap increases accuracy so that defects, such as nighttime haloes, are pretty much eliminated. This option is, of course, more expensive.