Here are some of the first questions to ask your eye surgeon, concentrate first on questions about problems after Lasik eye surgery : Ask your eye surgeon about the things that might go wrong when operating on the eye.

Problems After Lasik Eye Surgery

Not every Lasik or refractory operation is successful after the first time. You want to know what the success rate of your prospective eye surgeon is. Small problems after Lasik eye surgery are usually resolved in the first six months, so ask what the reported complications are six month after.

Specifically ask about not only the clinical complications that the eye surgeon himself diagnoses, but also about subjective concerns of patients. That can i.e. be halos, starbursts, dry eyes or other complaints.

It’s generally accepted, that the number of patients that have problems after Lasik eye surgery and complain about it after 6 months are about 3%, a relatively small percentage. If your surgeon is vague and seems to hesitate to give you hard numbers, or even talks of none, be careful. Also if the number is significantly lower, ask for proof, just like in any other profession or procedure, total perfection is impossible…

Tricks To Keep Problems After Lasik Eye Surgery Low…

One way of keeping this number very low is by keeping complicating cases away and only accepting easy surgery. Also, some patients are simply not suited to refractive surgery and need to be told so, becaus it would cause more damage than help and a good surgeon will not hesitate to decline an operation in such cases.

So an other very good follow-up question is to ask, how many patients are turned away by your surgen. He will certainly not volonteer this number, but as long as you don’t get the annswer ‘None at all’, this is OK. If however you’re told ‘none’ then the red warning lights must go on immediately!

There are plenty more questions to ask your eye surgeon. Problems after Lasik eye surgery are a fact, and you should be aware that there is a risk, but you can try to lower it by carefully chosing your eye surgeon.