Eye is the one of the most important and sensitive human organ. You cannot over emphasize the how important eye sight is. Now we have medical innovations which make us get our sight back to normalcy in most of the cases. One of them is Laser eye surgery. And Laser Eye Surgery is not without complications.

Consumer activists blame laser surgeons for not appraising their patients fully of the possible complications. Let us take a few cases of Laser eye surgery complications. The first problem about the complications is that they are underplayed by the clinics as something dismissible. It gives one an impression that while they admit complications they cleverly forget the more serious ones.

Laser eye surgery complications

Here we try to list out some of the Laser eye surgery complications.

* Over correction - generally this is intentional as a cornea tends to regress to its normalcy. Wearing glasses may become necessary if regression mismatches.
* Under correction - can be serious if regression cannot be arrested by steroidal admission too.
* Loss Of Best Corrected Vision - Complete failure and patient is unable to see even with glasses.
* Double vision, Time Glare, Night Myopia, Halos and starbursts, Vision Blurring are some more examples in this.
* Now get ready to the more serious ones now.

o Flap Melt - requires surgical assistance to arrest disintegration.
o Flap Dislocation - Non alignment of flap. Remedy - surgery.
o Flap wrinkles - Indicated remedy - surgery
o Flap Striae - Lines in the flap - Indicated remedy - surgery
o Free Flap - Indicated remedy - surgery.
o Lost Flap - A hopeless case.
o Corneal Abrasion, off - centered Ablation, Incomplete Flap - are really some of the hardly repairable serious Laser Eye Surgery Complications.

Questions about Laser Eye Surgery Complications

Are the patients really drawn to Laser Eye Surgery because of technological efficacy or is it a case of them just responding to media brouhaha and commercials. Experts are of the opinion that regardless of the reasons, patients have lost it on them to ask questions. Questioning your doctor doesn't necessarily mean you doubt him. It is a mutual trust building and evaluation exercise you can do. Just play safe. After all it's your eye they are playing with. The rate of Laser Eye Surgery Complications however is less than 5% but not all may be attributed to doctors.