I'd like to know how the laser treatment that changes eye color permanently is different from implants? Are there similar risks?

Everything you describe is not out of the ordinary. First of all it is not unusual to be slightly overcorrected after surgery. This will pass. The scratchy sensation is related to post op dry eye and you can expect to feel this sensation on and off over the first two months. The cloudiness is...

Lasik flap never heals completely, its really stable and only vulnerable to direct eye trauma, but if you try to lift the flap years or decades after surgery you will be able to, femtosecond has exactly the same clinical results.

At +8.50D you are beyond the range of what can or should be treated with LASIK or other forms of laser corneal refractive surgery. These procedures steepen the cornea to reduce farsightedness. The extreme amount of steepening required to eliminate your degree of farsightedness would be...

It is certainly possible for LASIK to cause dryness of the eyes, however usually it will occur within weeks of your surgery, not five years later.  More likely your dryness is something that would have happened even had you not undergone LASIK.  Dryness occurs more frequently as people...

Monovision can take some getting used to, and some patients never get used to it. If you did monovision prior to surgery with contacts and adapted well to that, you certainly should adapt to it with LASIK surgery. Most patients will adapt within 2-4 weeks, and 10% will not adapt at all. Also,...

The most common reason for blurred vision in low light after LASIK is residual refractive error (nearsightedness, farsightedness and/or astigmatism).  If when you visit your doctor, glasses correct the problem in a darkened room, you may simply need an enhancement surgery at the three month...