Infection

As with any medical procedure, a possible complication is the risk of infection. As a result, your eye surgeon may prescribe antibiotics to lessen the chance of an infection happening. There is a risk of infection because the Lasik procedure creates a break in your cornea, which sometimes may not heal properly. If the cornea doesn’t heal properly, the chance of your eye becoming infected increases. While the idea of infection sounds scary, it is actually scarier than it sounds. As an example, if your eye was to become infected after this medical procedure and the doctors were unable to treat it with antibiotics, there is a chance you could end up with diminished vision or actual loss of vision.

Regression

Another complication that can occur, but which you rarely hear people talk about is regression. When regression occurs, the eye tends to regress back towards its original prescription. Believe it or not, this situation can and does sometimes occur. If it does occur, a Lasik doctor can perform an enhancement on it to correct the problem. Unfortunately, there is a caveat to the enhancement. For the Lasik surgeon to perform the enhancement, your cornea will have to meet a certain threshold for thickness. If you do need an enhancement, it will most likely be performed around three to six months after the first Lasik eye surgery.

Epithelial Ingrowth

As the Lasik Risks Guide pointed out, the Lasik Eye Surgery procedure uses a metal blade to cut into the cornea. As a result of this break, the flap needs time to heal. Unfortunately, sometimes the cornea’s flap does not heal properly. During the healing process, the cornea’s surface cells sometimes grow beneath the flap created during the Lasik procedure. As a result of this happening, the patient’s vision can become blurred and his or her eyes can become irritated. Luckily, the Lasik surgeon can easily identify the problem and provide relief by raising the flap and removing the trapped surface cells.

Over Correction During Lasik

Sometimes, despite a skilled eye surgeon’s best efforts, this complication does occur. While over correction may sound like a good thing, it is not what you think. Your eye sight does not go to 20/15, as you may suspect. In fact, if you had been suffering from myopia before, with over correction, your near term vision can become very blurry. Additionally, your long distance vision can also be affected, resulting in blurry eye sight. Very fortunately, a Lasik eye surgeon can fix this problem by performing another Lasik procedure. When this happens, the second procedure is called an enhancement.

Lasik Defined

Lasik Eye Surgery has become very popular today as a vehicle to fix people’s vision problems. But what exactly, is Lasik? Lasik stands for laser assisted in situ keratomileusis, which simply means this is a refractive eye surgery. As for the actual operation, Lasik takes a metal blade to cut a small flap into the cornea. Then, the surgeon peels the flap back and uses a special laser (it is called an excimer laser) to vaporize a small portion of the eye’s interior, called the stoma. Once enough of the stoma has been removed, the surgeon places the flap back and uses natural adhesion to assist in the healing process.

Welcome to the Lasik Risks Guide

Welcome to the Lasik Risks Guide. This guide was developed to educate people about the numerous risks involved in getting Lasik Eye Surgery.