It wasn't the visual acuity that was the issue by those who were not pleased with the surgery, it was the halo effect around lights at night. It was reported as extremely disturbing. The documentary reported that the surgeons measured the success by the degree of acuity obtained. The people who experienced the "failure" were not complaining about their 20/20, or not achieving it, but by the halo's and blurred night vision. Some folks were reported not to be able to drive, and to need extremely bright indoor lighting at night.... and to have trouble viewing television. Robert > From: Joe Brzoza <joebr_at_burton.com> > Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:15:27 -0500 > To: "'PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net'" <PaddleWise_at_lists.intelenet.net> > Subject: [Paddlewise] FW: FW: 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). *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Jan 17 2000 - 12:32:04 PST
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