Eye laser surgery short sight risks and information
Eye laser surgeries are the most common surgeries in the western world and the satisfaction percentage of patients is very high. The huge demand made many clinics to promise a short eye laser surgery that will enable their patients to get rid of their eyeglasses.
But in many cases patients are not aware of the risks and that this simple surgery cant help every single patient, sometimes it can even end in blindness. The next story might emphasis some of these risks and problems:
R. is a 23 years old mom with 3 kids. She went with her little girl to an ordinary eye check at her optometrist. R used the opportunity to ask her doctor about an eye laser surgery, her Doctor immediately recommended the surgery and said that it was a 100% risk free operation.
The Doctor gave R a business card of an eye laser surgery clinic where he used to work. 2 days later R already had an appointment for the surgery. She was operated in one eye for $3,000 and in the first few days after the surgery she reported an improvement in eyesight but it didn’t last long and after a week or so she was already saying black dots and lost more of her eyesight in the operated eye. The surgeon told her that it was a natural reaction and kept claiming the same thing for over a year. In the end R found out that she shouldn’t have been operated because of the structure of her inner eye. She won a lawsuit against the clinic but that didn’t help her eye to get back to what it used to be.
So please make sure when choosing a clinic that the surgeon is a professional and ask him to go over all the risks with you. Most eye laser operations are a success but one can never be certain. There is no such thing as a 100% risk free operation and that is something you must always take in consideration.
In many cases it is good to visit more than one clinic, talk to the operating Doctor and ask for phone numbers or emails of clients that went through the same procedure and can recommend the clinic.