| Tom Lucas 2006-09-18, 8:26 am |
| <southeasteyecare@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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<snip psuedo-science on tiny sample>
> RESULTS: The incidence of dry eye in the nasal- and superior-hinge
> group was eight (47.06%) of 17 and nine (52.94%) of 17 at 1 week,
> seven
> (38.89%) of 18 and seven (41.18%) of 17 at 1 month, four (25%) of 16
> and three (17.65%) of 17 at 3 months, and two (12.50%) of 16 and six
> (35.29%) of 17 at 6 months, respectively.
> CONCLUSIONS: Dry eye occurs commonly after LASIK surgery in patients
> with no history of dry eye.
Ignoring the glaring deficiencies in the study for now, I believe that
an occurrence happening in less than half of the sample (1 week anomaly
excepted) is not "commonly" and is more aptly termed "occasionally" at
most.
The best that can be gleaned from this study is perhaps that a nasal
hinge is better tha a superior hinge but I would expect that this flawed
study has failed to control all the variables in the two methods and so
this result is dubious too.
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