Laser Eye Surgery Forum

LAL

Light Ajustable lens surgery is new over here, and i am a little bit worried about the thought of having your natural lens removed but the results after surgery are far better no glares etc.
So I was thinking maybe I should go for the contact lens implant costing far less than the £10,000 for LAL but what are the drawbacks and risks? can you help.

Having your the lens removed in your eye is exactly the same as what they do during cataract surgery and it is generally considered a very safe procedure. The Implantable contact lens procedure is also an intra ocular procedure (within the eye). Laser eye surgery is a safer procedure than these 2 options. Have you not considered laser eye surgery or are you not suitable?

Thank you for your reply, I am a little apprehensive regarding the below
procedures I recently visited a ophthalmologist for a glaucoma test
which was negative. I asked the doctor and he said that anyone going
under eye surgery holds risks which has a 1 in 1000 of having complications so if you are having both eyes done this is 1 in 500 and
at my age (43) it is too young to lose my sight, I guess he was dead against it only because he saw patients in the waiting room crying there
eyes out because they had experienced complications and the effects were irreversible.

I am unsuitable for laser treatment.

would you be of the same view and what are the percentages of risk/

many thanks Debs

With regards to the complications, you are best to discuss them with the actual surgeon who would be doing the treatment as every surgeon has different complication rates. What you also need to realise is that a complication does not necessarily mean going blind, it could be something much less serious than this and it might be something that your surgeon would be able to rectify for you. If you want to know the chances of going blind from the surgery you need to specifically ask this question to your surgeon.