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Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. Lasik RSS Feed - Just another WordPress.com weblog Tiny Lens Implant One Step Closer to Being in Your Eye April 3, 2009 at 4:55 pm For people suffering from advanced macular degeneration, this lens implant magnifies light at 2.2x to 3x and projects it onto the healthy part of the retina, avoiding the damaged blind spot. It also, one would think, looks pretty awesome to wear. All we have to go on now are these illustrations, but I would love to see this in actual use. The device has finished clinical trials, and experts on ophthalmic devices have unanimously recommended FDA approval. Amazing stuff. (read full story) Media Files 0465e82600c90b287d3d5de675bfbba3?s=96&d=identicon Most Lasik Patients Happy with Results April 3, 2009 at 10:17 am The vast majority of patients who have Lasik eye surgery are happy with the results, according to a review of world scientific literature that spanned a decade. In studies reported from 1988 to 2008, some 95.4% of patients were satisfied with the results of laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis, according to Kerry Solomon, M.D., of the Medical University of South Carolina, and colleagues. In the 19 studies that reported on patient satisfaction, the rates ranged from 87.2% to 100%, Dr. Solomon and colleagues said in the April issue of Ophthalmology. “This places Lasik among the most successful of all elective surgeries, comparing very favorably with other elective procedures,” Dr. Solomon said in a statement. (read full story) Subscribe to our RSS feed for breaking LASIK news and our latest updates. Media Files 0465e82600c90b287d3d5de675bfbba3?s=96&d=identicon   This email was sent to mieshaaloysha@gmail.com.  Create Your Account Don't want to receive this feed any longer? Unsubscribe here.