Safety better but long-term safety unknown
Monday, December 12, 2005; Posted: 11:30 a.m. EST (16:30 GMT)
CHICAGO (AP) -- Christopher Tomes, 43, opened his eyes one morning, looked out the window and could read the license plate of a parked car -- without his glasses.
He'd had Lasik eye surgery the day before, becoming one of the 5 million Americans seeking to shed their eyeglasses with laser vision correction during the past decade.
"It's exceptional," Tomes said of his vision nine days after surgery. "I'm extremely happy I did it."
Since U.S. doctors began offering laser vision correction in 1995, safety has improved and new methods give people with more severe vision problems a chance to have the procedure.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/condi....ap/index.html
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I knew lasik was a new procedure, but I had no idea that its only been around for 10 years!
I've been seriously thinkinig about getting it (my contact lens script is -7.5 )
Yeah, I can't see worth a darn.
