Laser eye surgery failure rate

A report in the medical journal Opthalmology, backed up by research carried out by Health Which? magazine, suggests that the real failure rate for laser eye surgery is one in ten, as opposed to one in 1,000 which is the usual claim of clinics and advertisements. One in ten patients need further corrective surgery after the operation. One in a thousand cases result in serious after-effects such as scarring of the cornea.