What exactly are the risks for lasik eye surgery?
Some of the risks of lasik eye surgery: over- or under-treatment
the inability to wear contact lenses permanent loss of vision
reduction in the quality of vision including the development of
glare, halos, and starbursts difficulty with night-driving reduced
vision in dim lighting conditions. I'm not sure of the exact
statistics, but I think it's less than 1% of people who have
serious complications. Upwards of 5% of people have less serious
complications, the most common of which can be treated. New World
iCare offers a LASIK surgery center with ALLEGRETTO WAVE Eye-Q, a
400 Hz ablation rate makes the Eye-Q one of the fastest lasers in
the world and its unique PerfectPulse Technology ensures safety and
accuracy in combination with outstanding visual results. For added
safety, the laser has an extremely fast eye tracker that can
respond to any eye movement in just six milliseconds. Previously,
only lower-order aberrations (such as nearsightedness,
farsightedness, and astigmatism) could be measured and treated
either with Glasses, Contacts or Conventional LASIK treatments.
Higher-order aberrations, which often linked to the visual glare
and halos that cause night vision problems, earlier could not be
corrected and that continued to affect quality of vision. With the
advent of Wavefront technology and Customized LASIK, however, New
World iCare in Mumbai, India have the diagnostic tools to measure
22,000 unique points along the optical pathway to determine and
ultimately correct both lower-order and higher-order aberrations.
Using the precision provided by the WavePrint map, Customized LASIK
has the potential not only to correct how much you see, but also
how well you see. Allegretto WaveLight technology also features a
unique approach to corneal sculpting. The normal curvature of a
healthy cornea is prolate or higher in the center. Most laser
systems flatten centrally to create an oblate cornea. This oblate
shape causes spherical aberration, which degrades the quality of
vision, especially at night, and often produces glare or halos. The
Allegretto laser not only treats the cornea centrally, but also
peripherally. The laser uses proprietary monograms to adjust the
asphericity of the cornea to perform a prolate ablation based on
the anterior curvature readings. This prolate curvature, in part,
accounts for the excellent quality of vision during the day and
night.