Re: lasik recovery time
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Are there any drawbacks? My mother claims you lose "depth of vision," whatever that means. Maybe she means depth perception.
Also, how risky a procedure is it?
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People that have lasik in their 30s/early 40s will usually require reading glasses in a few years, but they would have anyway if they had had perfect vision all their lives.
I'm a 3rd year med student and I spent a week with an Optho that did a lot of Lasik, he had his eyes done, and as we walked around the hospital he was constantly bumping into people whom he had corrected w/ lasik
One word of advice, you pay for what you get, anyone offering like 300 an eye in the phone book probably isnt worth it, make sure they're an opthomologist, and ask how many times they've done the procedure and for how long they have been doing it. It's a good sign if they own a lasik machine and have it in their office, it's a bad sign if the machine is in a bus and parks outside their office the one day that they do the procedure (I'm not kidding)
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My question is, is it better to find an invididual opthomologist, or would going to one of the big, *expensive* chains, like TLC, be a better idea? It seems to me that the latter folks would be more experienced with possible problems . . . and they aren't cheap, fly-by-night operations.
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