Try www.lasermyeye.org, or www.surgicaleyes.org as a place to start.
Short version of the story: If it goes well, it's GREAT. If it doesn't, it's a nightmare... once your eyes are lasered, if it's unsatisfactory, you can't correct it with glasses and you can't wear normal contacts.
My wife lost her night vision due to bad lasik... odd thing is, the doctors count her as a success because she can read an eye chart under bright lights. But under normal room lights, her vision is blurry... and under muted room lights, she can't even recognize faces 5 feet away... and yet she's counted in their '99% success rate'.
From what I can tell from reading the sights, anywhere from 10 to 40 percent (depending on the type of machine they use) get unsatisfactory results. A percentage of those can be fixed with subsequent surgery, but not all.
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Try www.lasermyeye.org, or www.surgicaleyes.org as a place to start. Short version of the story: If it goes well, it's GREAT. If it doesn't, it's a nightmare... once your eyes are lasered, if it's unsatisfactory, you can't correct it with glasses and you can't wear normal contacts. My wife lost her night vision due to bad lasik... odd thing is, the doctors count her as a success because she can read an eye chart under bright lights. But under normal room lights, her vision is blurry... and under muted room lights, she can't even recognize faces 5 feet away... and yet she's counted in their '99% success rate'. From what I can tell from reading the sights, anywhere from 10 to 40 percent (depending on the type of machine they use) get unsatisfactory results. A percentage of those can be fixed with subsequent surgery, but not all.