Lasik Blog » lasik surgery safety http://www.lasikvisionblog.com Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:10:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Lasik Vision Surgery Safer Than Contacts? http://www.lasikvisionblog.com/lasik-vision-surgery-safer-than-contacts http://www.lasikvisionblog.com/lasik-vision-surgery-safer-than-contacts#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:39:04 +0000 Marc http://www.lasikvisionblog.com/lasik-vision-surgery-safer-than-contacts Recent news reports are making a surprising claim: that it’s safer to get lasik vision correction than to just keep wearing your contacts.

Here’s a quote from a report on CBSNews.com:

Based on their review of several large studies, ophthalmologist William Mathers, M.D., and colleagues concluded that daily contact lens wearers have about a one in 100 chance of developing a serious lens-related eye infection over 30 years of use, and a one in 2,000 chance of suffering significant vision loss as a result.

The researchers calculated the risk of significant vision loss due to Lasik surgery to be closer to one in 10,000 cases. They reported their findings in a letter published this month in the journal Archives of Ophthalmology.

“One shouldn’t just assume that contacts are safer,” Mathers tells WebMD. “This may have been true at one time, but for the average person this is certainly not the case anymore.”

The article also says the chances of getting serious infection increase to 1 in 1000 if you sleep in your contacts.

I think I’ll be wearing my glasses from now on!    :)

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