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Thursday, January 18, 2007

LASIK Surgery- Complications and Risks

The popularity of LASIK surgery is soaring. It is considered to
be a surgery with little or no risks associated with it.
Therefore, people seem to make rash decisions when considering
having the procedure done. To think that a surgery of any type,
no matter how minor, does not have possible complications is at
best naive, at worst it is complete stupidity. This is
especially true of a surgery that is conducted on your eyes.


Another common complication that can arise from the LASIK
surgery is the condition known as dry eye. This is when the eye
does not produce enough tears to keep the eye moist. There are
people that have this issue without ever having LASIK surgery;
however, there is a very high incident rate among recent
patients after the surgery. Most people do experience some
relief from dry eye after about a month or so into the healing
process. However, for most patients, the symptoms do not
disappear entirely.


Talk to your surgeon about all of the risks that are associated
with the LASIK surgery. You will need to weigh them against the
potential gains in your self-esteem and even perhaps the future
savings of not having to purchase glasses or contact lenses.
Your doctor will be happy to talk to you about these potential
problems and let you know how you can help to avoid having them
happen to you.


There are a fair amount of people that complain of distorted
vision as a result of the LASIK procedure being performed. These
complications include seeing halos around objects, blurred
vision, and an increased difficulty seeing in adverse conditions
such as nighttime or foggy weather. This is because of the
diminishing contrasts in colors in these types of situations.


The most obvious danger with any surgery that is being performed
on your eyes is the loss of sight. This is also true with LASIK
eye surgery, although it is not a very common consequence. A
more common issue with this procedure is actually the partial
loss of vision. This includes losing bands of sight on the
reading chart, if this happens the use of glasses or contacts
will not be able to correct the situation.


About the author:


John Mancini has been writing about Eye Surgery online and
offline for a long time. Visit http://ez-lasik-surgery.com or
http://lasik-eye-surgery-expert.com to read more about matters
like lasik procedure and lasik surgery.
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