Complications Associated with Lasik Laser Surgery for Vision Correction

Reduced quality of life was reported by few people post Lasik laser surgical procedures, due to different vision problems. Besides this, few people also complaint about mild to severe pain associated with the surgery. Due to over-correction or under correction, few of patients often require other Lasik laser surgical procedures. Besides this, many patients have to wear corrective eyeglasses even after the treatment, especially at night. Although the vision correction through

Lasik surgical procedures has high success rate of over 92-98% but the loss of vision due to injections was reported in cases of 1-10000 patients who have undergo Lasik laser surgical procedures. 0.244% of Lasik laser with flap complications were report as per recent study conducted. Displaced flaps or folds in the flaps are very common with Lasik laser surgical procedures. Such flap complications rarely lead to vision loss or visual acuity. Under the qualified and experienced professionals/surgeons, the flap complication is highly reduced. The major cause of flap complication is inexperience of the eye surgeons in the field of Lasik laser surgical procedures. 

After the Lasik laser surgical procedures, the change of slipped flap, which is detachment of flap from rest of the cornea, is very high. For effectively healing and adherence of the flap efficiently, it is always recommended by the doctors to the patients after the surgery to go home and sleep. For several nights, the patients are advised to wear sleep goggles for the purpose of the preventing the dislodging of the flap in their sleep. 

When the eye is examined after the Lasik laser surgical procedures through slit lamp biomicroscopy and confocal microscopy, it was reported that particles of different sizes are clinically visual. Furthermore, some patients post Lasik laser surgical procedures, complaint of Post-LASIK corneal ectasia, where the cornea of the patients with period of time, often bulge forward. Other complications associated with Eye Treatment Delhi India done through Lasik surgery are Flap interface particles and diffuse lamellar keratitis.

Complications where patients are enable to wear contact lens, commonly known as corneal scarring, are also associated with post Lasik laser surgical procedures. 0.1 % complicated cases of epithelial in growth are also associated with Lasik laser surgical procedures. After five to seven years post Lasik laser surgical procedures, some patients reported that complications of late traumatic flap. It is estimated that 0.36 % of Retinal detachment cases were reported post Lasik laser surgical procedures. The bulging of cornea forward often causes complications such as irregular astigmatism. Some of the cases of Laser Eye Surgery in Delhi were reported to show the incidence of subconjunctival hemorrhage.