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Concern over laser eye surgery risks

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Cosmetic laser surgery and Glaucoma laser surgery are so far apart…. there is no comparison. This article is not relevant here. >Concern over laser eye surgery risks >to have corrective operations. Laser eye surgery is one of the fastest >growing areas of cosmetic surgery, with 100,000 Britons having the >operation each year. >According to the medical journal Ophthalmology, the average failure rate >for laser eye surgery – which involves reshaping corneas to correct >short or long sightedness – is 10 per cent. The reasons that operations

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At the moment I am OK but I see my optomotrist in June and it,s nice to know your there.Perhaps this time they will tell me for def wether I have glaucoma or not as they can’t seem to make up thier mind. I will be in touch. There seems to be comfusion all round about glaucoma but we will see. The posts are having trouble reaching me and I don’t know why. — jacqueline ~~~~~~~~ email  jackie…@blueyonder.co.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  http://members.lycos.co.uk/jackie147/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ laugh and the world laughs with you, So,If you feel sad,  laugh and fool your face into being happy, your brain will follow suit.   :0)] Honest,try it!!

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From The Telegraph (UK) Concern over laser eye surgery risks By Jenny Booth (Filed: 04/05/2003) Laser eye clinics are misleading customers by claiming that the operation is virtually risk-free when in fact one in 10 operations fail. Glossy brochures and websites which quote post-surgery "complication" rates as low as just one in 1,000 do not mention that up to 10 per cent of patients will have to have further surgery. The 0.1 per cent complication rates that some of the clinics quote refer only to catastrophic problems such as corneal scarring or ectasia, a condition where the cornea is left so weakened that the eyeball bulges, and which can leave patients partially-sighted.

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