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Originally Posted by Kasturi
Just a word of advice: Never trust a Lasik surgeon who wears glasses.
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I would rather have one wear glasses than one that needed to wear glasses and didn't. Lasik can't fix every eye problem, only a limited number of conditions can be fixed.
I work at a college of Optometry. Optometrists don't generally do Lasik since it is a thing that Opthalmogists do but I did find a paper that one of the doctors had written on Lasik. Some of the stats are:
- LASIK is the safest of all ophthalmic surgical procedures; serious side effects only 1% that are sight-threatening.
- Most commonly performed ophthalmic surgery in U.S
- Low complication rates
- High overall patient satisfaction.
An optimum candidate would be:
- Large pupils (greater than 6.5mm in dim light)
- Astigmatism >2.50D
- Significant higher order aberrations