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The medical wonder of the 21th century is so many and LASIK is one of them and it is common now days that many people do LASIK surgery. Why many people trust it is safe? Because it is F.D.A. approved… but is it enough?

LASIK is a surgical procedure that uses a laser to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, and/or astigmatism. It is also irreversible. The industry marketer always said that LASIK is perfectly safe, but is it?

Let’s review the fact that LASIK is still a new technology, it first appear in 1998, booming in 1999, and the first people who has trouble after LASIK surgery appear in 2002,  and the debate wheter LASIK surgery is good and bad is still going on until this very day.

The good thing about LASIK surgery is that people can see better again and the F.D.A. and industry representatives agreed that 95 percent of patients are satisfied with the procedure. But the percentage is based on 10 years research only, more long term risk is still unknown.

The bad thing about LASIK surgery is various and you can check the people who had bad LASIK surgery, and they said that there are many risk in LASIK surgery that the industry doesn’t want to tell you. When LASIK surgery gone wrong the effect can be vary from blur, ghosting, glare, halos, loss of contrast, and also starbursting. You can check the sample picture in their website.

Now I’m not going to say you should or should not do LASIK surgery but just telling you the fact that LASIK surgery is still new and its probably not as safe as many people talk about. In my opinion if you doesn’t have any problem using glasses then you don’t need to do it.

posted: 10 March 26
under: Medical information