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It would be interesting to know if this could work w/ my floppy and misshapen keratoconus corneas. I'd resigned to having corrective lenses for the rest of my life.
I've considered it just based on that basis for the last 10 years but still haven't done it because I don't know a single person who has.
Studies with promising early results like these, such as the tooth-regeneration study that is expected to complete its Phase I trial soon, really give me hope for being able to grow old while staying healthy. It does make me wonder how long it'll take until we've reached the end of things to cure, and what might come after.
Curious for anyone who understands the science/optics here... if/when this is available, would it still have the downsides LASIK (and contact lenses) have for older people where you no longer need distance glasses, but now you may need reading glasses, when you didn't before, etc? Or might this be able to improve both distance vision and preserve nearsightedness/reading vision at the same time? That tradeoff is the r…
There is no case where you need reading glasses and weren’t going to before lasik. That’s a myth and completely unrelated. You need reading glasses because muscles at your eyes lose the ability to pull tight and focus up close. LASIK is a correcting of the lens. Entirely different systems. If you put off lasik because you thought you would need readers, congrats, you could have been seeing sharp at distance this whol…
People who got LASIK, but the nerves didn't heal right afterwards. The result is permanent, severe eye pain for the rest of their lives.
Studies with promising early results like these, such as the tooth-regeneration study that is expected to complete its Phase I trial soon, really give me hope for being able to grow old while staying healthy. It does make me wonder how long it'll take until we've reached the end of things to cure, and what might come after.
There's a niche in TikTok content about corneal neuralgia. People who got LASIK, but the nerves didn't heal right afterwards. The result is permanent, severe eye pain for the rest of their lives.
I know a guy for whom LASIK wasn't an option, he needed a lens implant. I wonder what the new method would make possible
Man, lasik was the best $3000 I ever spent. 20/15 laser eyes for almost twenty years now. Traveled around the world, no contacts, no glasses, no missing anything because I just woke up on a train or stepped off a boat or a bus.
I know a guy for whom LASIK wasn't an option, he needed a lens implant. I wonder what the new method would make possible
Lens implant isn't a great option either because it is believed to kill cells in the eye with it taking extra space. One can just wait for cataract, then get a corrected replacement lens.