Explaining Laser Eye Surgery Risks
We all know that one of the great things about living in this modern era is that we can now do things that seem to be very much impossible for us years ago. One of those things aside from the development of the PC and the internet is 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.
Aside from the already publicly known risks in laser eye surgery, here are some of the other more dangerous rarer complications that are usually not talked about.
Possible complications that can take place in laser eye surgery
We’ve all heard about over and under correction associated with laser eye surgery, maybe some have heard of flap wrinkles too, but it is more than likely that you will not have heard of some of the more dangerous laser eye surgery complications such as central corneal Islands in the eyes.
It is very rare and only 1% of patients suffer from it but central corneal islands have been known to create problems for patients. Essentially central corneal islands occur when tissue is not removed uniformly across the eye.
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 is one more complication that can arise. In most cases this will take place when a number of foreign bodies have gotten themselves trapped under your corneal flap.
Because of this, the patient could experience pain, blurred vision, sensitivity to light, or have the ongoing sensation that there has been something trapped inside his or her eyes.
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.
Corneal ecstasia is a complication that takes place due to surgeon error. Essentially in these cases the surgeon either removes too much corneal tissue or he or she makes to bigger incision during the flap creation process.
Unfortunately, for this type of laser eye surgery complication, it can only be put right with a corneal transplant.
Although all of these complications can take place, the reality is that they are very rare. Before deciding whether to have laser eye surgery performed one should research all the available data on these complications and then make up their decision whether or not laser eye surgery is worth the risk for them.
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