There are of course risks because every surgical procedure carries a risk.
Can you go blind from laser eye surgery.
The most serious that could happen would be an infection.
Technically there is an exceedingly small risk of blindness with laser eye surgery but it is lower than the risk of wearing monthly contact lenses for one year so a risk that everyone seems to accept as perfectly reasonable.
The american refractive surgery council reports that there are no actual cases of blindness resulting directly from lasik surgery and the success rate is as high as 96 percent.
The american refractive surgery council states that no one has ever gone completely blind from laser eye surgery with inadequate aftercare being the direct cause of any laser eye surgery induced blindness.
Lasik surgery is considered to be a fairly low risk and highly successful elective surgery.
One common concern is whether it s possible for laser eye surgery to cause blindness.
In short no one has got off the operating table without being able to see.
Thankfully the chances of going blind as a result of laser eye surgery are very tiny indeed.
Learn more however while complications can occur blindness does not.
It s logical to worry about the risks of laser vision correction.