Hello everyone,
After reading Shwings posting with the article about the pitfalls of LASIK I felt compelled to write down some things that I see happening now with the procedure as well as some future outcomes. Also I will put in some of my own predictions just to make people mad at me for being right sometime down the road :-)
First, the question has been posed several times about how LASIK will affect opticians and the optical industry. The answer is: Temporarily only. In a nutshell ;-)
Now let's talk procedure outcome shall we :-) After running the hacksaw blade...er...Keratome through a layer of the cornea and ripping it...er...folding it back gently in order to get to the soft underbelly beneath the doctor then torches the living flesh underneath to create a refractive improvement (maybe ;-) While this all sounds like a really good idea to some, it just strikes me as well self mutilation as an attention getter :-)
Technical stuff: When incising the cornea one must penetrate Bowmans membrane. So?!?! Bowmans membrane is made up of cells that do not regenerate and therefore has to build a web type or honeycomb system of cellular tissue to bind (hopefully) the incised tissue. That "The visions great but there's just something...." something is the web like tissue. This cellular mass is the same medium that infection can develop in a small percentage of patients that have the procedure done (approximately 0.2%) because of its sponge like effect on moisture not to mention the perfect breeding ground for infection (Mmmmm, Yummy!)do to exposure and cellular make up. That "just something..." is the defusing effect of light through this molecular structure underneath the corneal flap. Defusing light in low light situations or no light situations compounds the effect of lightlessness (Imagine that. :-)
I have a whole lot more but I must be off to Austin where I will meet with a good friend of mine and basically get plowed for the weekend :-) TTFN.
Darris "Always thinking" Chambless
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