Re: Laser corrective eye surgery

[Kim Merritt <merritt9@llnl.gov>]

A quick review of the Rockwell Laser Industries (www.rli.com) web 
site showed links to several sources regarding laser eye surgery.  I 
looked at the site for The Laser Center (www.tlcvision.com) and it 
gave a brief description of the Lasik procedure, which did include 
mention of the eye healing itself.  Perhaps the information in the 
PEP session was referring to a possibility of the ablated tissue 
growing back.


 
>Hello everyone,
>At the recent Annual conference in Denver, I attended an PEP course on
>Laser safety. During that course it was suggested that corrective eye
>surgery actually was an unhealing Laser radiation induced tissue injury to
>the eye, with the thought being if it healed that the eye would again not
>see correctly. I think this procedure is the flap and zap one.
>Does anyone have any comment as to the validity of this theory and could
>you point me in the direction of some reference material that discusses
>this?
>Thank you,
>Mark Dater
>Nexstar Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
>These are my comments or questions alone and not those of my Employer
>
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