By Brue Baker
 Lasik eye sugery has become increasingly popular among adults who are looking to toss their contacts or glasses away for clear vision. However, you need to know the risks before you sign up for lasik eye surgery.
While there are many improvements in the medical field, one thing that still could use a little help is lasik eye surgery. If you happen to encounter a problem during the procedure, you could be looking at a lifetime of issues.
For most people, being able to wake up in the morning without having to stumble for their glasses would be wonderful. And for those who struggle with contacts, the day of no longer needing them would be a blessing. But as with everything in the medical field there are risks involved and you could very well end up being one of the few who come out with a lasik eye surgery problem.
To make one thing clear, there are thousands of people getting this procedure done every single week and most come out without any issues and love their results. But for the few |
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By Dennis Tavies
 Radial Keratotomy
The history of laser eye surgery begins a little over 100 years ago when Lans, a Dutch Ophthalmology professor, explained the basic principles of keratotomy in 1898. A Japanese doctor named Sato did some pioneering trials with corneal incisions during the 1930s; however, many of his patients suffered from late corneal decomposition after the treatment.
In the 1970s Dr. Fyodorov of Russia put radial keratotomy into practice by treating a case of eye trauma. When a boy broke his glasses and suffered corneal lacerations, Fyodorov used this technique to treat the boy. The boy's vision returned better than before the injury. This success inspired Fyodorov to do some research on past efforts in this field.
His findings caught the attention of American ophthalmologist Dr. Leo Bores in 1978. He brought the technology to the United States after visiting Dr. Fyodorov in Russia. Since then, over 2 million people have received radial keratotomy in the United States alone.
But the discovery of certain limitations of radial keratotomy determined doctors to research alternative forms of eye surgery.
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