Lasik Success Rates

 Ask your surgeon how long they have been performing LASIK and about their success and complication rates. Your surgeon should discuss the potential success rate for your individual surgery as well as any potential complications. Surgical success means more than knowing how to avoid complications; it means knowing how to handle difficult situations before they arise. Identifying problems early and dealing with them in a timely manner is the hallmark of excellent surgeons. All surgeons have complications, but that does not mean that anything was done wrong. What is important is that the surgeon have a low complication rate and that the ultimate visual outcomes be good.

It is also important to know about their experience with refractive errors similar to your own. The surgeons should have adequate experience with people of the same age, gender, and race as you because the surgical techniques needed to correct refractive errors in these groups may differ slightly from the norm.