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Beware The Side Effects Of Laser Eye Surgery

By Dean Caporella

While laser eye surgery has been a wonderful innovation for those with vision problems, one shouldn't lose sight of the fact that because it is a surgical procedure, there are still risks involved.

Going into any surgical procedure starry-eyed should only be done after an exhaustive screening process. This will involve consultation with your surgeon about the side effects of laser eye surgery and how they could effect you.

In this article, we'll examine what some of those side effects are and while the risks are extremely low, it's wise to at least know they exist.

Side Effects Of Laser Eye Surgery

There is always the possibility of delayed healing and infection. The percentages are extremely low; just 0.1% of patients could expect this complication. In the majority of cases, there are no long term complications only some discomfort experienced becuase of the longer healing delay.

One of the more common side effects of laser treatment is what's known as over or under correction. The resultant effect is a patient may need to continue wearing their contacts after surgery or even have

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By John Porter

Opting for the right LASIK surgery to correct your vision today is not the same as it was a decade ago. This is comparatively a recent medical breakthrough. It was only in 1994 that the first eye surgery was performed. Back then surgeons didn't have much option on how to go about the entire procedure. All they had was a microkeratome, a small mechanical blade which helped to create a flap on the cornea. Once the flap was created, conventional excimer laser was used for reshaping the tissue underneath.

That would allow the cornea to focus light directly on the retina exactly as it happens in a normal eye. This is all the option that an optometrist had about a decade ago. Since the this surgery has gone through a sea change and amazing advancements have been made in the technology that is being used. Lasers have become much smoother and precise which has allowed patients to have better vision than they could have ever imagined before.

One of the newest addition to this opertation technology is the machine called

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