In our world today technology has advanced to the stage where it has made our lives a lot easier than they once were. Whether it be the invention of the intranet and home PC or more importantly advancements in health care. When it comes to health care for instance in recent years one of the most noted advancements has been laser eye surgery.

Being able to stop having to worry about taking your eyeglasses with you everywhere and to avoid getting them broken are more than enough reasons for many people to undergo laser eye surgery.

However no medical procedure, no matter how advanced it is, is without risks. In most cases with laser eye surgery everything goes go to plan though.

Some of these complications are already well known about by the public at large; however this isn’t the case with all of them so we will try to shed some light on them here.

Possible Risks

Besides the commonly known complications in laser eye surgery such as over and under correction, there are other more rare complications that can take place.

In some cases the laser used during surgery doesn’t remove the tissue in a uniform manner and so areas of tissue end up raised up and form Central Corneal Islands. Luckily only 1% of patients generally suffer from this.

Depending on your case you may have the option to undergo more surgery to correct this problem, but if not you will probably have to wear correction lenses of some kind.

DLK or diffuse lamellar keratitis as it is known technically is another complication known to take place in eye surgery when foreign bodies manage to find themselves within the corneal flap.

When this occurs a patient can experience blurred eyesight, more than normal sensitivity to light, possibly some pain and or the sensation that something is trapped in the patient’s eye.

If a patient finds him or her self subject to these symptoms, he or she should waste no time in contacting his or her doctor even if the surgery was performed a long time ago. Normally this can be remedied with the subscription of oral and topical medication.

Epithelial in-growths can grow under the patient’s corneal flap and in doing so cause significant vision problems.

The corneal ecstasia is another complication that can essentially weaken the cornea and make it bulge out after the surgery. This is caused by an error in judgment by the surgeon when a deeper incision than necessary is created during the flap creation process. It can also occur when the surgeon removes more corneal tissue than necessary.

When this occurs the only available option is to perform a corneal transplant to put the damage right.

After reading this article you may be feeling a little more uncertain about laser eye surgery. Nevertheless it is important to remember that these complications only take place a very small percentage of the time. But of course before undergoing surgery you should evaluate whether it’s worth that small risk to you.