| Glenn - USAEyes.org 2006-01-03, 12:56 pm |
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>Theres no clear study
>reguarding complication rates and satisfication rates.
Ace, you are decidedly wrong in this regard.
All FDA clinical trials include both rates of complications and rates
of patient satisfaction. A review of published peer-reviewed
literature shows scores of studies on complication rates and
satisfaction rates. Our organization's Quality Standards Advisory
Committee has determined that approximately 3% of all refractive
surgery patients have unresolved complications at six months postop,
with about 0.5% being serious complications requiring extensive
maintenance or invasive intervention.
> Two people can
>end with identical outcomes and one person be totally miserable, the
>other totally happy.
This is true, and this is reflected in patient satisfaction studies.
>Many of the people I know experienced small
>complications but the good outweighed the bad.
Patients with clinical complications may consider the complication to
be less disruptive than the requirement of corrective lenses.
>Loss of night vision is
>very common and some say universal but a large number do not experience
>deleberating night vision issues.
Some say a lot of things that cannot be shown to be accurate.
While "common" is a relative term, it would appear that 97% not having
complications would indicate that any complication is not very common.
>Nearly everyone I know who got lasik traded some vision quality and
>sometimes accuracy in order to reduce/eliminate their dependancy on
>glasses.
It would be surprising if the quantity of people you know who had
refractive surgery is a true representative sample. Anecdotal
information is a poor way to judge anything.
Glenn Hagele
Executive Director
USAEyes.org
"Consider and Choose With Confidence"
Email to glenn dot hagele at usaeyes dot org
http://www.USAEyes.org
http://www.ComplicatedEyes.org
I am not a doctor.
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