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Originally Posted by flylock shox
I'm looking at getting laser eye surgery done, and have been told that it will fix my long distance vision but that I'll still need reading glasses a few years from now, which makes sense. However, I've also been told I can preserve some of my near distance vision if I get my long distance vision laser improved to less than a 20/20 standard (kind of a middle of the road approach).
Two questions:
1. Is the latter true? In a sense yeah. What they do is leave some of your nearsightedness uncorrected (ie. -0.50 or -0.75). They can do this one year only (called Monovision) or both eyes. If you work on the computer all day it makes sense. Would you rather wear glasses sometimes far away or all the time up close ?
2. Do you have a sense of which laser technique seems to fail the most, i.e., one that has your patients showing up with complaints in greater frequency?
PRK has better long term outcomes but more pain/blurry vision at first. LASIK has more complications due to surgical flap issues.
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Money guy is somewhat correct about Cataract surgery as a refractive procedure.
Pros:
1) long lasting as most of the Rx changed occur in lens.
2) can do multi focal implants
3) can fix higher prescriptions
Cons:
1) most potential risk of side effects (going into the instead of just shaving the surface down)
2) about double the cost.