A Good Candidate For Laser Eye Surgery

Significantly, people need to understand if they are good candidates to go under laser eye surgery. A laser eye surgery suitability check for patients is done by expert-eye-surgeons. It is important so that it can be confirmed whether a person can undergo laser surgery to correct eye problems, or whether a person actually requires a laser eye surgery. Expert conduct proper consultation sessions with patients in which patient’s medical background, current healthy conditions, type of eye-problem or vision-error or diseases and its severity etc are examined, evaluated. Once the expert evaluates all the necessary things and check reports then the final decision is taken. In which expert suggests patients if they really need to have a laser surgery or not and if they do then which type of laser procedure is best suitable for them. In order to take right decision and to eliminate any complications and risks, the consultation session, examinations and evaluations are done. People need to understand that refractive surgery or laser eye surgery procedure is not for everyone. There are certain questions and points that a person should ask himself/ herself before considering laser eye surgery or other refractive procedures:

• Am I willing to accept a low but real risk of surgical complications? This is because, there is no doubt that laser eye surgeries are giving great results, still, there can be times when unavoidable complications occur that can negatively affect person’s vision.

• Does my career allow me to have laser eye surgery? This is because there are some organizations that prohibit their employees to have refractive surgery. So it is better to confirm it first and jump on any decision.

• Has my vision been stable long enough to have laser eye surgery? This is because sometimes there can be minor changes in vision of eyes from year to year. But if the problem continues to get progressively stronger each year, then a person may not yet be a good candidate for refractive surgery.

• Do I have any health conditions that make me a poor surgical candidate? As we discussed in beginning of the blog, that medical health background and current health conditions are important considerations.

• Some other points to consider are related to recreational activities that can make person a bad surgical candidate, age and other corneal diseases such as Keratoconus.