Complications post Lasik surgery is natural fears and there is nothing wrong with the same, as the eyes are the most sensitive organs of human body. These fears become dominating as the data from different sources contract with each other. Even a small complication alerts us, as after all eye vision is essential for every microsecond of the life, except sleeping. Eventually, the percentage of success rate and failure rate bother and influence the decision of going to Lasik.
Percentage of Side Effects and Complications
Side effects and complications are different, though both contribute the percentage of Lasik surgery going wrong. The probabilities of different side effects, which are possible during the period of recovery, after the Lasik surgery are the following.
- There is lesser than 5% of probability of returning to the need for the contact lenses, glasses. The same is the probability to have the need for another Lasik surgery to achieve the expected smoothness out any of astigmatism, nearsightedness, farsightedness or any aberrations of higher order over the cornea, contributing the symptoms of the vision.
- There is up to 30% of probability that the patient experiences the symptoms of dry eye, especially, during the first three months, post surgery.
- Some of the patients may experience symptoms like night vision, halos, glare along with dry eye and it may continue for 6 months to 12 months, though this period is considered as the part of recovery and healing. There are also certain therapeutic treatments available for the patients, who experience these side effects.
The probability of complication rate varies as the following.
Lasik is a laser eye surgery and the complications are common, just like any other surgery in the medical industry. Surgical complications of Lasik are possible, but are very rare. The possible complications after Lasik are corneal flap dislocation and infections. These conditions are considered as complications, as they demand one more phase of treatment, as leaving them untreated can be harmful.
The fact remains that the complications after Lasik remain very very low, according to the statistics. The percentage of the patients, who experience these complications, is lesser than one. This 1% is very low, when a complex treatment, surgery is considered.
What FDA Reports Indicate?
FDA conducted PROWL (Patient Reported Outcomes With Lasik). These reports are exaggerated in the media, including social media. Though it specifies some more percentage of symptoms experiencing after the Lasik surgery, after a clear and deeper analysis, it is found that there are 5 to 10% of the Lasik patients, who experience a range of symptoms after the Lasik procedures.
And other reports indicate that the success rate of the Lasik is more than 96% and so the probability of failure or Lasik surgery going wrong can be lesser than 4%.
Leaving the social media, which always exaggerates a small thing into ten times complicated, it is always wise and better choice to go for the standard medical research reports and find the truths, with no additions or subtractions of interpretations.