Laser Eye Surgery Forum

Is laser eye surgery safe?

I asked my optician if laser eye surgery was safe and he said that is had not been around long enough to be certain. Does anyone else have any information?

Laser eye surgery is an extremely safe procedure and millions of people worldwide have successfully had the surgery. The complication rate during laser eye surgery is about 1/1000 procedures.
Only 1/30000 results in a complication that the surgeon can not rectify.
Laser eye surgery has been around a lot longer than most people think . . . over 20 years in fact and no long term complications have been yet to be seen. Generally speaking complications will occur within the first year of surgery and most happen within the first month. Nearly all of these complications are easily treated.

Laser eye surgery certainly was safe for me! I had Lasik 3 years ago and hardly felt a thing! My surgeon said the chances of something going wrong was tiny and that he had never had any serious complications in over 7 years of surgery.