LASIK eye surgery is widely recommended by many eye care professionals every day
. Offering undeniable benefits to people who have vision problems, LASIK surgery is deliberately advocated by those surgeons. They persuade potential patients into receiving the surgery by presenting LASIKs pros and covering its cons. This is an uneven way for those patients to evaluate the procedure in a comprehensive way. This article lists some of the possible risks associated with LASIK procedure. Whatever benefits LASIK can provide, it is an eye surgery that risks can not be completely removed.
One potential unfortunate condition is under eye correction. The outcome from LASIK actually depends on the degree of vision problem to be treated and how well the surgery is performed. Utilizing a laser to reshape the cornea, LASIK may do inadequate job in this sense. This is called under eye correction which usually requires a second surgery. Although this condition rarely occurs, it can not been neglected. But people with truly profound prescriptions are more likely to suffer this disappointing situation. Patients can receive a second LASIK surgery only after several months allowing the eyes to heal and adjust.
A second condition is that some patients still need to wear eyeglasses or contact lenses. This rare condition is also worthy of careful consideration. A similar case is that eyeglasses or contact lenses will be needed after several years. This is called non permanent visual outcome. Actually, vision deterioration is unpreventable due to natural aging process in the eyes. People getting older will probably experience visual problems again even if they received LASIK when they were young.
LASIK also involves visual aberrations which can occur during the procedure. An aberration named anisometropia will cause a difference in the refractive power between both eyes. And aniseikonia means the two eyes will perceive a difference in the size of an image. Other potential aberrations include hazy vision, double vision and visual fluctuation. Furthermore, dry eye and even vision loss are also possible.