Re: where's the best place to get laser eye surgery around here?
Date: September 06, 2008 02:53PM
BEST ADVICE: ONLY DO ONE EYE.
Many people get "sparkling" effect from diffraction, it can be bad at night when ooking into lights.
I heard of a study last year in a British journal that suggested that in 20 years, the corenas sculpted with lasers maight weaken and fall apart more than unsculpted corenas.
Until we have 20-30 years of follow-up data - WHICH WE DON'T - you are risking going blind in 20 years. If it were my only two eyes, I'd save one "as-is" and experiment on only one. That's a prudent approach.
The LASER docs are like plastic surgury dos - it's an assembly line about glam, vanity, easy, simple. They don't want to you to think about the risks. I'm not saying don't do it, but save one eye. What if 15 years from now there's a giant class action suit due to disintegrating corenas, like there was in the early 1990's for silicone breasts?
Kim