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 Lasik or PRK, shawn, 1/03/2006
  risk of flap dislocation after..., William B. Trattler, MD Miami, FL 1/04/2006, (#1)
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"Lasik or PRK"
Posted by shawn on 20:07:10 1/03/2006
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I am a candidate for either surgery. I am a very active person and I am worried about the flap with LASIK. I was told if I play contact sports, there was a chance that the flap could get damaged if I was hit in the eye. How common is this? And is it possible to get repaired if it happens? I think I am leaning more toward PRK because of this issue.
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1. "risk of flap dislocation after LASIK"
Posted by William B. Trattler, MD on 09:13:08 1/04/2006
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The good news is that the risk of flap dislocations after LASIK is very low. BUT...it can occasionally happen. It can happen with contact sports, with blunt trauma (like a finger poke) and even with airbag injuries. But again the odds of a traumatic flap dislocation is extremely low.
Surface ablation has some other advantages besides avoiding the uncommon risk of traumatic flap dislocations. The quality of vision in a few studies appears to be slightly better with wavefront guided surface ablation as compared to wavefront guided LASIK. As well, there is a lower risk of dry eyes with surface ablation as comapared to LASIK.
I hope this helps
Best regards
Bill Trattler, MD
Miami, FL
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