Look beyond Lasik surgery
2008-05-01 15:17:05 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - Health News News)Washington: Are you worried by the side effects of Lasik surgery? Tthere are many other surgeries that help in rectifying vision by providing implantable lenses.
For patients who are looking forward to vision correction surgeries, one can check out Surface Ablation or PRK Wavefront which stands for photorefractive keratectomy. In this surgery, one does not require to cut the flap in cornea like Lasik. This is one of the most risky steps that are involved in the Lasik eye surgery. According to Dr. Craig Fowler, cornea specialist at the University of North Carolina, “There’s a lot of us that are doing more and more surface ablation and much less LASIK.”
In vision correction surgeries, PRK includes about fifteen percent of 7,00,000 eye sight correction surgeries that are performed each year, in comparison to the five percent Lasik surgeries. It is seen that many other surgeries are not advertised in comparison to lasik eye surgery.
The Food Drug Administration last week reinstated its warnings about the Lasik eye surgery such as painful and dry eyes, lost vision, night vision problems and glare. However, Lasik eye surgery is aggressively marketed that result in huge popularity. According to Dr. Jayne Weiss at Kresge Eye Institute in Detroit, “LASIK is not a commodity. It’s a surgical procedure, but it is being sold as a commodity.”
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