[Paddlewise] FW: FW: Prescription glasses

Here's a response from my fiancée about the laser surgery documentary (she's
an Optometrist who recently been certified for post surgery care).  I
include the original posts in case someone missed a part - sorry to those
who are annoyed by my non-clipping.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michelle Cote [mailto:mlcote_at_hotmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2000 9:38 PM
To: Joe Brzoza
Subject: Re: FW: [Paddlewise] Prescription glasses


As with most documentaries, they are done to inform people about things they

may not know much about, in the hopes that people are not duped.  In order 
for laser eye surgery to be sucessful, you need to have realistic 
expectations of what the outcome may be.  Yes, there are people who are too 
myopic or have too much astigmatism to have a "perfect" result (20/20).  But

remember the bell curve from biology class, 90% in the mid ranges and 5% on 
each side?  That's the demographic in refractive errors as well.  The 
majority of people have very good outcomes, of course there are those that 
don't, but they are rare with a skilled surgeon.  I would not consider 
seeing 20/40 a failure of the procedure, it just needs to be understood that

10% "failure rate" that you are quoting in actually seeing 20/40 or better.

Please don't base your entire opinion on one documentary.  If you would like

to have more information, talk to an eye doctor or check out a laser 
centers' web site.


>From: Joe Brzoza <joebr_at_burton.com>
>To: "'mlcote_at_hotmail.com'" <mlcote_at_hotmail.com>
>Subject: FW: [Paddlewise] Prescription glasses
>Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 14:07:18 -0500
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robert C. Cline [mailto:rccline_at_swbell.net]
>Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 1:51 PM
>To: Peter Treby; PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net
>Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Prescription glasses
>
>
>Peter.  There was a documentary on TV recently about laser eye surgery.  If
>the operation fails, you are screwed.  The documentary cited at leaset 10%
>failure rate.  Eyes too myopic or too much astigmatism have halo effects at
>night and in indoor lighting.  The eyes "clock in" at 20/20 on the charts,
>and are deemed successful by the surgeon.  Thus the statistics don't really
>purvey the true failure rate of the operation.
>
>
>
>Peter Treby <ptreby_at_ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>  Fri, 14 Jan 2000 09:53:33 +1100
> > To: paddlewise <paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net>
> > Subject: [Paddlewise] Prescription glasses
> >
> >
> > Has anyonel come up with a good arrangement for glasses? Is laser eye
>surgery
> > the real solution?
> >
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