Risks in laser vision correction?
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Laser vision correction is a surgical procedure with several potential risks. The most serious ones are loss of vision because of either a severe eye infection (usually due to fungus or mycobacteria) or severe inflammation (corneal melting due to DLK). The cances of such devastating complications happening are very low - probably less than 0.5%.
Less severe complications include overcorrection, undercorrection, flap related complications (striae or folds), dry eyes, glare and halos.
It is very important to have a thorough preoperative evaluation to ascertain whether you are a good candidate for surgery. This means ruling out thin cornea (keratoconus), glaucoma etc. Please read the details of preoperative evaluation in the referenced article from AgingEye Times ( http://www.agingeye.net/ )
Glare, halos, blurry vision, torn cornea, incomplete lasering, astigmatism, over correction, under correction. But otherwise, no problem.
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