Being able to stop having to worry about taking your eyeglasses with you everywhere and to avoid getting them broken are more than enough reasons for many people to undergo laser eye surgery.

On the other hand, like any other medical procedure or treatment, there are complications that can take place when having laser eye surgery.

Aside from the already publicly known risks in laser eye surgery, here are some of the other more dangerous rarer complications that are usually not talked about.

The risks of laser eye surgery

Besides the commonly known complications in laser eye surgery such as over and under correction, there are other more rare complications that can take place.

It is very rare and only 1% of patients suffer from it but central corneal islands have been known to create problems for patients. Essentially central corneal islands occur when tissue is not removed uniformly across the eye.

Your doctor may simply prescribe corrective contact lenses to cure this problem or you may be able to have more surgery to attempt to correct the problem.

DLK is one more complication that can arise. In most cases this will take place when a number of foreign bodies have gotten themselves trapped under your corneal flap.

Symptoms to this include but are not limited to: pain in the eyes, the sensation of something being trapped in the eye, unusually blurred eyesight and sensibility to bright lights.

If a patient finds him or her self subject to these symptoms, he or she should waste no time in contacting his or her doctor even if the surgery was performed a long time ago. Normally this can be remedied with the subscription of oral and topical medication.

Then there's the epithelial in-growths which can occur when cells from the corneal epithelium start growing under the corneal flap. This can significantly affect vision.

Also, there is the corneal ecstasia that may weaken the cornea and make it bulge after surgery. This occurs when the surgeon creates a deeper incision during the flap creation process then necessary or when he or she removes too much corneal tissue.

Unfortunately, for this type of laser eye surgery complication, it can only be put right with a corneal transplant.

After reading this article you may be feeling a little more uncertain about laser eye surgery. Nevertheless it is important to remember that these complications only take place a very small percentage of the time. But of course before undergoing surgery you should evaluate whether it's worth that small risk to you.