Lasik surgery is considered to be a fairly low risk and highly successful elective surgery.
Can you go blind from laser eye surgery.
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.
One common concern is whether it s possible for laser eye surgery to cause blindness.
Total blindness where you have no light perception caused by laser eye surgery is extremely rare.
There are of course risks because every surgical procedure carries a risk.
Lasik to those who worry they could go blind from laser eye surgery for good lasik candidates with good surgeons i can safely say that the risk of laser eye surgery can be viewed with the same level of anxiety as contacts.
It s logical to worry about the risks of laser vision correction.
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.
Thankfully the chances of going blind as a result of laser eye surgery are very tiny indeed.
The most serious that could happen would be an infection.
I ve been doing laser eye surgery for 20 years and i ve never seen an infection although they do happen.